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

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

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

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.

The mindset of a Christian should be based on his faith that God can change the circumstances in His life

Hovering above me, directly over the twirling Merkabah, was the cosmic phenomena I hoped for but had not truly expected.

The real measure of your wealth is how much you'd be worth if you lost all your money.

The great failure in education, much of the time, is the lack of excitement and stimulus

The more we care for the happiness of others, the greater is our own sense of well-being.

The radical hostility, the deadly hostility against sensuality, is always a symptom to reflect on: it entitles us to suppositions concerning the total state of one who is excessive in this manner.

Christians don't tell lies, they just go to church and sing them. How many times have you stood and sang, “Take my life and let it be” when you haven't given Him one ounce?

I met the Queen, the Pope, and we went all over Europe and Asia. I just wish I was older when I did all this. Then I could appreciate it more.

God give you pardon from gratitude and other mild forms of servitude.

After I was injured, I had several good examples of "Get on with it, stop whinging and life can be what you make it," because the world doesn't stop turning when you have a boo-boo.