Most of My Friends are two-thirds water

You have to salvage what you can, even if you're the one who buried it in the first place.

Everyone knows that wizards are pigheaded and come to bad ends.

Remember, when you don’t know what to do, it never hurts to play Scrabble. It’s like reading the I Ching or tea leaves.

A monster. You and your friends, all of you. Pretty monsters. It's a stage all girls go through. If you're lucky you get through it without doing any permanent damage to yourself or anyone else.

Look. All books are weird when you think about it.... It goes without saying that real life is also weird.

Whether or not this story has a happy ending depends, of course, on who is reading it. Whether you are a wolf or a girl.

I don't think I'm cut out for a job where you have to look professionally tidy. I prefer working in my pajamas and taking showers after lunch.

Life is a series of sudden disappearances, leave-takings without the proper goodbyes.

The beloved may be treacherous, greasy-headed and given to evil habits, or else it can be a man in his late forties who works too much, or it can be an alarm clock.

The zombies were like Canadians, in that they looked enough like real people at first, to fool you.

Most men claim to desire driven, independent and confident women. Yet when confronted with such a creature reverence often evolves into resent. For just like women, men need to be needed.

I can't determine the order of events. But I can trust God to guide my footsteps.

Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit.

A chair is the first thing you need when you don’t really need anything, and is therefore a peculiarly compelling symbol of civilization. For it is civilization, not survival, that requires design.

It's not me who can't keep a secret. It's the people I tell that can't.

If you catch him, just give me four seconds with Saddam Hussein.

A sweet thing, for whatever time, to revisit in dreams the dear dad we have lost.

A story never looks as good as when the other fellow buys it.

What is happening today is that there are millions of children who are not lifted up to the first rung of the ladder. Then they are condemned when they don't know how to climb from there.

If there is one number to which the rights of millions will be happily sacrificed, it is the national GDP growth rate.