It's all right to be afraid. You just don't let it stop you from doing your job.

Put some clothes on, you weird, yellow-eyed, table-dancing, werewolf-training, cryptic, stare-me-right-in-the-eyes-and-don't-even-blink wench.

‎It isn't enough to stand up and fight darkness. You've got to stand apart from it, too. You've got to be different from it.

With a sense of humor like that, you could make a living as a garbage man anywhere in the country.

Anything can become a children's book if you give it to a child...Children are actually the best (and worst) audience for literature because they have no patience with pretence.

Those who are happy will make many souls happy.

Ghana, a land full of Gold! Africa, a land full of resources!

Hyperbolic statements will be the death of us all

When I have a day off, I will have a day off.

Let not a man glory in this, that he loves his country; let him rather glory in this, that he loves his kind...

In the 80's we had high, high, waisted pants, that if they came up any higher they'd have to go up another size, if you know what I mean.

For every fresh stage in our lives we need a fresh education, and there is no stage for which so little educational preparation is made as that which follows the reproductive period.

I always have this fear that one day you are going to discover that I'm not as great as you once thought I was. Nothing feels as good as skinny feels.

My Spanish is a daughter's Spanish. I write, but my Spanish really is very limited.