Every piece of the puzzle that doesn't fit gets you closer to the answer.

You'll have a lot more respect for a bird after you try making a nest.

Nobody notices it when your zipper is up, but everyone notices when it's down.

It's easier to throw sticks on the campfire than to try to restart it when it goes out.

If you want to zoom down the expert slope tomorrow, you have to fall down the bunny slope today.

If you want pancakes for breakfast, offer to help make them.

Look at the footprints you've made.

Ten minutes is short if it's a recess and long if it's a punishment.

It's not enough to be able to spell "magnificence" in your bedroom. You have to be able to spell it at the microphone during the spelling bee.

If you want to see a shooting star, you might have to spend a lot of nights looking up.

Whiners usually play alone.

Not all vampires are created equal.

We pray pious blether our will is not in it and then we say God does not answer we never asked Him for anything. Asking means that our wills are in what we ask.

Adolescence is about digging out the iron inside irony.

You can wear whatever, be whatever, do whatever you want.

I have an obsession with books about kids with Asperger's syndrome.

When I'm at home I practice everyday.

I like reading Ball Tongue lyrics and all that stuff. And they published a book, and I wouldn't give my lyrics, and it's all wrong in the book, and I giggle. It's funny.

I work in a creative industry. My work isn't terribly hard, it's artistically explorative, so I have no complaints.

Most of those we call heroes only did what they had to do.

Life, we learn too late, is in the living, the tissue of every day and hour.