He does something to me, that boy. Every time. It’s his only detriment. He steps on my heart. He makes me cry.

A snowball in the face is surely the perfect beginning to a lasting friendship.

Imagine smiling after a slap in the face. Then think of doing it twenty-four hours a day.

If only she could be so oblivious again, to feel such love without knowing it, mistaking it for laughter.

Often I wish this would all be over, Liesel, but then somehow you do something like walk down the basement steps with a snowman in your hands.

I have hated words and I have loved them, and I hope I have made them right.

I guess humans like to watch a little destruction. Sand castles, houses of cards, that's where they begin. Their great skills is their capacity to escalate.

No matter how many times she was told that she was loved, there was no recognition that the proof was in the abandonment.

It was the beginning of the greatest Christmas ever. Little food. No presents. But there was a snowman in their basement.

As always, one of her books was next to her.

If you can't imagine it, think clumsy silence. Think bits and pieces of floating despair. And drowning in a train.

When I think of the word "organic, " I think of natural, wholesome, and fundamental.That's exactly what I want my children's education to be like.

Critics! Appalled I ventured on the name.Those cutthroat bandits in the paths of fame.

An effective way to test code is to exercise it at its natural boundaries

Saying 'Gesundheit' doesn't really help the common cold - but its about as good as anything the doctors have come up with.

Enjoy the present day, as distrusting that which is to follow.

I wanted to do something not just commercial but also covetable.

Hazel!” he yelled. “That box! Open it!” She hesitated, then saw the box he meant. Te label read WARNING. DO NOT OPEN. “Open it!” Leo yelled again.

I dragged my wife from our honeymoon in Africa and landed her in Ontario, Canada, when it was -40 degrees.

I am a big nut for kind of weird musicality things. I love key-changes and random tempo things and polyrhythms - music geek.

A few years back, this guy [Barack Obama] would be serving us coffee.