I found out that it's not good to talk about my troubles. Eighty percent of the people who hear them don't care and the other twenty percent are glad you're having them.

My knees look like they lost a knife fight with a midget.

Letter make words. Words make stories. And stories can be changed with strong enough magic.

I think that the habit of gloomy poetry is very funny. It’s like a special competition in losing.

It's one of my inventions-a shampoo, " Athena explained. "Anyway, I didn't know it would do"-she gestured toward the snakes-"that.

Hope is the hardest love we carry.

Maybe not getting what she wanted gave her everything she wanted after all.

After twenty annual visits, I am still surprised each time I return to see this giant asparagus bed of alabaster and rose and green skyscrapers.

When you talk about world record times, you have to understand that everything must be perfect the weather, the course, the temperature. It is not always enough to be in good shape.

When a scientist's son or daughter becomes a scientist they'll say "Wonderful! Wonderful!" So, why, in the name of God, would a mother be jealous to see her daughter become a successful writer?

If you weren’t pretty, it wouldn’t matter what you said or didn’t say. That’s why you’re getting this attention.

One can't even know what it means to be lost in reality. For instance, it is easy to know whether you are lost or not in the Sahara desert, but to be lost in reality! This is much more complex!

Furthermore, in this one Church of Christ no man can be or remain who does not accept, recognize and obey the authority and supremacy of Peter and his legitimate successors.

Our writer would play the piano and then come up with songs on the spot that included all of us. It was so fun!

Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them.