My gran always said I was half clever, half stupid, and half crazy.

Standing in the corridor was a large plastic bin on wheels. He looked inside. Empty tins of dog food. That explained the spaghetti with meat sauce. Oh well, he'd eaten worse.

If a wolf attacks his sheep, the shepard kills the wolf, but he eats the sheep when he's hungry.

We was half stupid, a third lucky, and three-quarters ferocious.

You got to harden yourself. Make, like, a shell around you. But not everyone can do it. If they got nothing to hang on to some of them screw up. They’re not in the game no more.

No such word as can't. No such word as babagoozle neither!

Writing is a bit like being a god

He knew one thing for sure, though. Whatever happened, Matt would have some handy excuse. He'd make up some story or change an old one, find some dumb quote to explain it all.

I'm sick and tired of being sick and tired, ' said Maxie.'I know how that feels, ' said Blue.'I think some Pharaoh had that carved on his tomb, ' Maxie added.'Yeah? Times don't change much, do they?

Remember what I done for you here today, ' he shouted and passed out.

I’m different, ” said the Kid. “My gran always said I was half clever, half stupid, and half crazy.

She forces me to endure this ridiculous therapy, when the so-called counselors are little better than misguided do-gooders with degrees.-Artemis Fowl

Funny thing happens, [Melania Trump] gets so unfairly - the things they say, I have known her for a long time, she was a very successful person, a very successful model. She did really well.

I am more more terrified of living a comfortable life in a self-serving society and failing to follow Jesus than I am of any illness or tragedy.

You can't be afraid. You can be sad if you like. You can be angry. But it's the fear that'll freeze you in place.

Lies are essential to humanity.

So as the years draw on toward the Biblical limit, the inclination to look back, and to tell some sort of story of what one has seen, grows upon most of us.

I might as well be myself. Everyone else is taken.

Writers say many true things about their own experiences with publicity and promotion.

I would love to adopt a child from a Spanish speaking country, because I want to have Spanish in the home.

This basic thing I always do: 'What happened between the character's birth, and page one of the script?' Anything that's not in the story, I'll fill in the blanks.