The scribbled signature black, onto the blinding global white, onto the thick soupy red.

A snowball in the face is surely the perfect beginning to a lasting friendship.

Imagine smiling after a slap in the face. Then think of doing it twenty-four hours a day.

If only she could be so oblivious again, to feel such love without knowing it, mistaking it for laughter.

Often I wish this would all be over, Liesel, but then somehow you do something like walk down the basement steps with a snowman in your hands.

I have hated words and I have loved them, and I hope I have made them right.

I guess humans like to watch a little destruction. Sand castles, houses of cards, that's where they begin. Their great skills is their capacity to escalate.

No matter how many times she was told that she was loved, there was no recognition that the proof was in the abandonment.

It was the beginning of the greatest Christmas ever. Little food. No presents. But there was a snowman in their basement.

As always, one of her books was next to her.

If you can't imagine it, think clumsy silence. Think bits and pieces of floating despair. And drowning in a train.

There 's a good time coming, boys! A good time coming.

The Apocalypse would definitely put a crimp in my career plans.

I'm on a seafood diet - I see food, I eat it.

I hope I am pigeonholed with comedy. I'm really not interested in writing the darker stuff, the emotional stuff.

In the early years, you fight because you don't understand each other. In the later years, you fight because you do.

A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in the students.

Though the day of my Destiny 's over, And the star of my Fate hath declined, Thy soft heart refused to discover The faults which so many could find.

When I write, I can be heard. And known. But nobody has to look at me. Nobody has to see me at all.

I suppose all writers are crazy, but if they are any good, I believe they have a terrible honesty.

In the domain of art there is no light without heat.