I'm trying to ruin it!" Will had bellowed back. "So I can figure out how to do it perfectly! How can you learn anything if you won't take risks?

It's hard to give up the being together with someone.

But there's a whole world waiting, still, and there are good things in it.

It is so good to have friends who understand how there is a time for crying and a time for laughing, and that sometimes the two are very close together.

It's a funny thing about names, how they become a part of someone.

...you can pretend that bad things will never happen. But life's a lot easier if you realize and admit that sometimes they do.

We're so accustomed to laughing. It's harder for us when the time comes that we can't laugh.

Oh, sometimes it's just easier to please people, " Maria said finally.

I don't know what she is now. A stranger, mostly. It's as if she has become a part of a different world, one that doesn't include me anymore....

I laugh, because he knew what I was thinking, and very few people ever know what I'm thinking.

You know, sometimes it's nice to just have someone to blame, even if it has to be yourself, even if it doesn't make sense.

Miss Masters was not content with threatening to hire away his staff, oh no. First, she had to perfume it.

You are a success and nothing will stop your shining!

Be polite, be professional, but have a plan to kill everyone you meet.

And that is the last lesson of childhood: You spend all your years fighting against the injustice of big folk and their big rules until you are ready to rule yourself.

I can catch the ball. You've got to throw it to me.

She sensed it, saw my eyes wet with tears, and only then must have discovered I was no longer the man I had been, and I endured her glance with a courage I never thought I had.

Fun has to do with habitual activities but then also terrifically novel or unusual ones. It works as a sort of strange milkshake of those concepts.

Throughout the ages, stories with certain basic themes have recurred over and over, in widely disparate cultures; emerging like the goddess Venus from the sea of our unconscious.

If you write a bunch of different characters with a bunch of different opinions, you end up with these long scenes of everyone standing around talking.

My most smelly job was at a kennels and cattery, and I basically spent all day scooping poop.