Obstreperous, ‘huh,” said Tad. “I see you’ve been using that Big Word of the Day calendar I got you last Christmas.” “That is irrefragable,” I told him solemnly.

Some people are like Slinkies.They aren't really good for anything, but they still bring a smile to my face when I push them down a flight of stairs.

Evil must always be fought.

My will broke at the sound of his voice, and my head turned with as much inevitability as a sunflower turning its face to the sun.

A man says a lot of things in summer he doesn't mean in winter.

The only certainty life contains is death.

It is one of those lessons that every child should learn: Don't play with fire, sharp objects, or ancient artifacts.

When life doesn't meet your expectations, it was important to take it with grace.

If it looks like a hallway, feels like a hallway, and acts like a hallway—is it important to figure out that it isn’t a hallway?

Usually the people I do know are sufficient to spawn any number of nightmares without inventing any.

Anger is stupid, and stupidity will kill you more surely than your opponent's blade.

The whole world was no more than the precise length of each moment that separated them.

People who are intolerant, categorize and over-react... should all be dragged against a wall and shot.

When we give up our images of self-importance and our ideas of what should be, we can help things become what they need to be.

There is a sense in which I am pretty sure this makes no sense. I don't know where this is going. I don't know how it ends.

If one is strong be also merciful, so that one's neighbors may respect one rather than fear one.

The more you nurture a feeling of loving kindness, the happier and calmer you will be.

What I do and what I dream include thee, as the wine must taste of its own grapes.

True generosity is too frequently eaten up by prosperity and riches.

Flowers, leaves, fruit, are the air-woven children of light.

I'm not a prophet or a teacher, I just ask questions. I don't think a writer should be a teacher, but should know how to pose the questions and explain the problems.