I smell fear, he said with a quiet intensity. But not nearly enough.

Unwinds didn't go out with a bang-they didn't even go out with a whimper. they went out with the silence of a candle flame pinched between two fingers.

The Bill of Life was signed, the Unwind Accord went into effect, and the war was over. Everyone was so happy to end the war, no one cared about the consequences

Fight, flight, and screw up royaly.

Small victories are bet­ter than none.

I'd rather be partly great than entirely useless.

Once in a while our school has half days, and the teachers spend the afternoon 'in service,' which I think must be a group therapy for having to deal with us.

(Why did they call them sneakers if it was so hard to sneak in them?)

People would cheer throw confetti and then go about breaking the resolutions they had made only moments before.

I think all mothers are alike, regardless of cultural background, when it comes to illogical cleaning.

It's called loitering, which is like littering with human beings as the trash.

Conversation enriches the understanding but solitude is the school of genius.

We have no words for speaking of wisdom to the stupid. He who understands the wise is wise already.

I was always interested in social change but never actually did anything about it.

I have really sinned. I am going to pause now, and sit here on the mound repenting in deepest shame.

She's quite intelligent, in my stupidity.

I am sensitive to life, and somehow acting comes to me. I cant explain it.

The idea of the self interests me a great deal. What is the self? And finding yourself, and which self? In a way, we're more than one self, but you somehow try to get to a rock bottom self.

Mr. Dallstrom is a bald, scarecrow of a man with a poochy stomache. Think of a pregnant Abraham Lincoln.

None so empty of grace as he that thinks he is full.

You either evolve or dissolve.