The world is full of monsters with friendly faces.

It never gets easier, missing you. And sometimes I wonder if it ever will.

To his amazement, he could already hear Henry snoring in the backseat. That guy could fall asleep on a car trip to the mailbox.

The worst pain in the world goes beyond the physical. Even further beyond any other emotional pain one can feel. It is the betrayal of a friend.

If you thought eighth grade was tough, try it with fangs and a fear of garlic.

Because teachers, no matter how kind, no matter how friendly, are sadistic and evil to the core.

Bullying is a horrible thing. It sticks with you forever. It poisons you. But only if you let it.

If citizens followed their leaders' example throughout history, the human race would have died out centuries ago.

Getting staked had been a hard lesson in choosing one's friends wisely.

Growing older is mandatory, but growing up is optional.

Sometimes you have to be alone to think, and sometimes the best place for thinking isn't home.

If I could, I would live forever in this moment. But no one can live in a moment, and time moves on.

Family is a place where love never ends.

I study chess eight hours a day, on principle.

Music is meant to be a beautiful thing.

Human satisfaction must ultimately come from within oneself.

It seems to me that inner growth is the whole moving force behind voluntary simplicity.

Much of the activity we think of as writing is, actually, getting ready to write.

Never utter a word if it is not from your navel point and it doesn't confirm your regal, highest self.

We don't mind that we still have troops in Germany, or that we still have troops in Japan or Korea. But they are not in danger, and we know that they are in danger in Iraq.

[ Lady Susan novel by Jane Austen is] extremely difficult to adapt. I worked on it for years, for, like, ten years, before I started showing it to people. This was my back-burner project.