My father could be very witty, even if the humor was always on the darker side of irony.

And it is through fantasy that children achieve catharsis. It is the best means they have for taming wild things.

'Hansel and Gretel' is one of the scariest stories ever written! Psychotic mother; stupid, inane father.

And the walls became the world all around.

There must be more to life than having everything.

I know that if there’s a purpose for life, it was for me to hear Mozart.

Emeralds,' said the rabbit. 'Emeralds make a lovely gift.

Children do live in fantasy and reality; they move back and forth very easily in a way we no longer remember how to do.

I wish you all good things. Live your life, live your life, live your life.

A book is really like a lover. It arranges itself in your life in a way that is beautiful.

And now," cried Max, "let the wild rumpus start!

Irony: When those who call others a 'threat to Christianity' reject the crucial tenets of their own faith themselves.

Need and struggle are what excite and inspire us our hour of triumph is what brings the void.

if you think she is amazing, you are the ordinary one ...

You can tell that hold is effective because his face is red and the rest of his body is the color of a bottle of 2% milk.

We don't pretend to disagree.

To be baptized means to make the passage with the people of Israel and with Jesus from slavery to freedom and from death to new life. It is a commitment to a life in and through Jesus.

The simplest way of understanding justice is giving people what they deserve. This idea goes back to Aristotle. The real difficulty begins with figuring out who deserves what and why.

The lack of wealth is easily repaired but the poverty of the soul is irreplaceable.

Yet everything that touches us, me and you, takes us together like a violin's bow, which draws one voice out of two separate strings.

Nowadays you can go anywhere in the world in a few hours, and nothing is fabulous any more.