I've never been in trouble. I've never had detention or anything. I wasn't a teacher's pet though either.

I liked all of my science classes from biology to chemistry. I thought dissecting was one of the most interesting parts of it.

If we're stuck with having expectations, there's a very good reason to embrace positive ones: It's that we often create what we anticipate.

Baseball is a lot like the Army, there aren't many individuals. About the only difference is that baseball players get to stay in nice hotels instead of barracks.

Never wrestle with pigs. You get dirty and they enjoy it.

In the secret pocket, she often kept a small pocket dictionary, which she would take out whenever she encountered a word she did not know.

It is like what we imagine knowledge to be: dark, salt, clear, moving, utterly free.

Deism is logically compatible with evolutionary theory for the simple reason that the theory says nothing about the origin of the universe or of the laws of nature.

The fact that I have an ideology, however, doesn't mean I'm indoctrinated.

all I wanted to do was sneak out into the night and disappear somewhere, and go and find out what everybody was doing all over the country.

Writing can be wonderful therapy, and cheap at the price. At the very least, you eventually get bored by thinking about anxious topics and move on.

I pull my eyelashes when I'm tired or thinking - it's a nervous thing.