Smee, you are a supreme idjit." "Aye, Cap'n.

Always trust computer games.

If you don't believe in yourself, who will?' ~Maybeck

Walt loved technology. He didn't understand it half the time, but the beauty of good technology was that he didn't have to understand it. Just use it.

Be careful what you wear to bed, because you never know where you might wake up.

He likes you, too." Finn repeated. "And don't tell me to shut up." "Shut up!" -Kingdom Keepers, Shell Game

True love isn't reserved for weddings and ceremonies. It's from the heart. That's all it has to be. All it ever is.

The way you get better is putting words on the page and getting them behind you.

I think every fiction writer, to a certain extent, is a schizophrenic and able to have two or three or five voices in his or her body. We seek, through our profession, to get those voices onto paper.

Jez had gone from an evil twin to a sweet, even angelic, girl, all in less than a minute.

Finn whispered, "What has a head, thorax, and abdomen, but stands six feet tall?" "A snowman?

By all means continue destroying my possessions. I daresay I have too many.

Write like you speak with the 'rhythms of human speech, ' as William Zinsser said, and in as few words as possible. Use action verbs to carry water.

Going to see plays isn't what you people should do. Try looking at yourselves a little more often and see what gray lives you all lead. How much of what you say is unnecessary.

A man of fifty looks as old as Santa Claus to a girl of twenty.

Action is movement with intelligence. The world is filled with movement. What the world needs is more conscious movement, more action.

Neutrinos have mass? i didn't even know they're Catholic!" Robert to Vittoria

I've got the opportunity of a lifetime. Some great things are happening because of momentum and I'm just trying to seize the moment.

Behave simply and hold on to purity.

In the nineties, everybody wants to talk about their rights and privileges. Twenty-five years ago, people talked about their obligations and responsibilities.

The good NCO has never been short in confidence, either to perform the mission or to inform the superior that he or she was interfering with traditional NCO business.