I can't tell you how irritating it is to be an atheist in a haunted house.

it's like a squid in love with the sky.

I do not know what I regret. I sit with my pen, and cannot find an end to that sentence.

The sky was as blue as a stupid postcard, and the islands were as green as islands.

The natural world is so adaptable...So adaptable you wonder what's natural.

Older teens tend to write to me and say, 'Thank you for not writing down to teenagers.'

Whispering makes a narrow place narrower.

Why not write a book which is as sophisticated as a book for an adult, but is about the concerns that teenagers actually have?

It's insulting to believe that teens should have a different kind of book than an adult should.

Teens are not like the weird, dumb dwarves you have around your house. They are actually you when you were younger.

At long last, you may no longer distinguish what binds you from what is you.

Out of suffering comes creativity

But centuries of time have not made me insensitive

I gave up drinking coffee for you. I swapped pizza for produce, and this is what I get in return?

About half my designs are controlled fantasy, 15 percent are total madness and the rest are bread-and-butter designs.

He is not humanity deified. He is not Godhead humanized. He is God. He is man. He is all that God is, and all that man is as God created Him.

For the benefit of those of you who have real jobs and are not involved in the news business, I should first explain that . . .

That's what I want to see, and that's what Trump is calling for, to take the power back from Washington, D.C.

Right is Right even if nobody does it. Wrong is wrong even if everybody is wrong about it.

Wisdom corresponds to the future; it is philosophy.

Any piece of knowledge I acquire today has a value at this moment exactly proportional to my skill to deal with it. Tomorrow, when I know more, I recall that piece of knowledge and use it better.