He also keeps his silence when Bible passages become shredded to justify unwinding, and kids start to see the face of God in the fragments.

Unwinds didn't go out with a bang-they didn't even go out with a whimper. they went out with the silence of a candle flame pinched between two fingers.

The Bill of Life was signed, the Unwind Accord went into effect, and the war was over. Everyone was so happy to end the war, no one cared about the consequences

Fight, flight, and screw up royaly.

Small victories are bet­ter than none.

I'd rather be partly great than entirely useless.

Once in a while our school has half days, and the teachers spend the afternoon 'in service,' which I think must be a group therapy for having to deal with us.

(Why did they call them sneakers if it was so hard to sneak in them?)

People would cheer throw confetti and then go about breaking the resolutions they had made only moments before.

I think all mothers are alike, regardless of cultural background, when it comes to illogical cleaning.

It's called loitering, which is like littering with human beings as the trash.

Some men are born sodomites, some achieve sodomy, and some have sodomy thrust upon them...

The bad things don't seem to happen to bad people.'That's because they already did. There's no original evil left in the world.

Seeking excellence means choosing to forge your own sword to cut through the limitations of your life...

The worst thing baldness causes is loneliness.

A Smith & Wesson does more for empowering women than Feminism ever could

I never went wrong by being myself.

The Governor's Mansion is a beautiful home, a beautiful building - we're privileged to have a chance to live there. It certainly doesn't feel as comfortable as our home.

Follow the path of serenity. Why lose your temper if by losing it you offend God, trouble your neighbor and in the end have to set things aright anyway?

If you write a hundred short stories and they're all bad, that doesn't mean you've failed. You fail only if you stop writing.

If you avoid failure, you also avoid success.