I really wouldn't classify the books as mysteries. I prefer to say that they're adventures.

You're a marshmallow. Soft and sweet and when you get heated up you go all gooey and delicious."-

I shot that sucker right in the gumpy." Grandma Mazur

The 'Barnaby' books were always intended to be graphic novels.

I'm done with men. I have a hamster. That's all I need.

When I was six years old I sprinkled sugar on my head, convinced myself it was pixie dust, wished myself invisible, and walked into the boys' bathroom at school.

My Spanish is limited to burrito and taco.

Calories don’t count if they’re connected to a celebration. Everyone knows this.

-You're gloating, Max. It's not flattering. Somebody needs to teach you a little humility.- -A good woman could do that.- -She'd have to be armed and dangerous.-

Its always nice to have a stud muffin at the table.

Only men you can count on these days are Ben and Jerry.

The first time you see something that you have never seen before, you almost always know right away if you should eat it or run away from it.

She lacked the sheen of money, muscular good health, good skin, good clothes.

While doubt cannot be expelled, it can be subdued.

We must not demonstrate any arrogance, and we must refrain from any irrational or undemocratic behavior.

Cyndi Lauper was hilarious and generous, someone I'd loved from childhood who didn't disappoint.

In life, the worst disasters come from passion.

You simply cannot trust or refer to your experience of your self to tell you what you are, to tell you the truth within.

It is easy to find fault, if one has that disposition. There was once a man who, not being able to find any other fault with his coal, complained that there were too many prehistoric toads in it.

The president's dream of a worldwide liberal utopia is going to undermine the security of the United States.

The first time I ever found Paste I thought somebody just might have finally made a magazine using only the contents of my brain. I read it cover to cover every single month.