No sign of pleasure greeted the announcement. The mood in the hall was leaden. My mood was livelier. Fright is livelier than lead.

A library is infinity under a roof.

There's nothing wrong with reading a book you love over and over. When you do, the words get inside you, become a part of you, in a way that words in a book you've read only once can't.

And so, with laughter and love, we lived happily ever after.

Climb the day, Drop your dreams, Possess the day.

When you become a teenager, you step onto a bridge. You may already be on it. The opposite shore is adulthood. Childhood lies behind. The bridge is made of wood. As you cross, it burns behind you

That's funny, you're funny. I like you, I'm quite taken by you.

There's nothing wrong with reading a book you love over and over.

My favorite of my books is DAVE AT NIGHT, because it's loosely based on my father's childhood in an orphanage.

Who judges the judge who judges wrong?

I want to be with you forever and beyond.

Perhaps watching someone you love suffer can teach you even more than suffering yourself can.

I truly believe I am not afraid of death. What I shrink from, I believe, is the shame of dying as stupid and befuddled as I am.

Real programmers can write assembly code in any language.

I don't do a lot of talking. I do a lot of doing. And really, it says more about a person than how much they talk.

Did your mother never tell you not to drink on an empty head?

The more we are true to ourselves, the more we can connect with and contribute to the world.

Culture is this thing that we can exchange among ourselves as human beings to knock aside our differences and build upon our similarities. Cultural exchange is the ultimate exchange.

Though I'd have to say it was generally the guys in Detroit, as a group, that won the two Championships. They were terrific and I always look back very fondly.

Like most-maybe all- writers, I learned to write by writing and, by example, by reading books.

My honors are misunderstanding, pesecution and neglect, enhanced because unsought.