Growing older is mandatory, but growing up is optional.

It never gets easier, missing you. And sometimes I wonder if it ever will.

To his amazement, he could already hear Henry snoring in the backseat. That guy could fall asleep on a car trip to the mailbox.

The worst pain in the world goes beyond the physical. Even further beyond any other emotional pain one can feel. It is the betrayal of a friend.

If you thought eighth grade was tough, try it with fangs and a fear of garlic.

Because teachers, no matter how kind, no matter how friendly, are sadistic and evil to the core.

Bullying is a horrible thing. It sticks with you forever. It poisons you. But only if you let it.

If citizens followed their leaders' example throughout history, the human race would have died out centuries ago.

Getting staked had been a hard lesson in choosing one's friends wisely.

Sometimes you have to be alone to think, and sometimes the best place for thinking isn't home.

The world is full of monsters with friendly faces.

The whole is simpler than the sum of its parts.

Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.

We read to find life, in all its possibilities.

You don't have a right to vote, you've got a duty of vote.

They needed to share one secret after another with a beautiful woman, to peel away layer after layer, mask after mask, and still find themselves worshiped.

It's tremendous what can happen when suddenly you make an emotional connection.

I'm not someone who plays a part for the press junket.

Small towns seem to appreciate things a little bit more. They're less jaded and they're more kind of authentic and more themselves and they don't care as much.

South Africa is such a fraught place to live. The anxiety about crime, the crunching on racial eggshells, the juxtaposition of First World materialism with Third World squalor.

We're beginning to realize that drowsiness or sleep deprivation, fatigue, is beginning to outstrip alcohol as a cause of accidents in transportation, particularly on the highway.