Older teens tend to write to me and say, 'Thank you for not writing down to teenagers.'

it's like a squid in love with the sky.

I do not know what I regret. I sit with my pen, and cannot find an end to that sentence.

The sky was as blue as a stupid postcard, and the islands were as green as islands.

The natural world is so adaptable...So adaptable you wonder what's natural.

Whispering makes a narrow place narrower.

Why not write a book which is as sophisticated as a book for an adult, but is about the concerns that teenagers actually have?

It's insulting to believe that teens should have a different kind of book than an adult should.

Teens are not like the weird, dumb dwarves you have around your house. They are actually you when you were younger.

I can't tell you how irritating it is to be an atheist in a haunted house.

At long last, you may no longer distinguish what binds you from what is you.

Action w/o orchestration is burn out

The most important thing to do as you age is to stay physically active. Lots of people just throw in the towel if they can't do what they used to do, and that's terrible.

Then HBO was the pie in the sky. HBO is the absolute ultimate.

If we do what we think is right, not try to point-score, people will begin to trust us.

What is the purpose of life? To elevate all, big or small.

You know, the man's best friend is his dog... if he's got nothing else.

Now whatever you think of the liberal agenda on its merits, until very recently nobody thought the Constitution meant what liberals now say it means.

Want to snatch a day from the manacles of boredom? Do overgenerous deeds, acts beyond reimbursement. Kindness without compensation. Do a deed for which you cannot be repaid.

You don't have to be brought up in a grand house to have a sense of the past, and I truly believe that there are certain people to whom or through whom the territory - the place, the past - speaks.

The government now has license to transfer property from those with fewer resources to those with more. The Founders cannot have intended this perverse result.