Tiny fists can hurt quite a lot when they hit you in the face.

The story is always better than your ability to write it. My belief about this is that if you ever get to the point that you think you've done a story justice, you're in the wrong business.

When they finished laughing they were on their way to being not just friends, but the dearest of friends, the sort of friends whose lives are shaped by the friendship.

Because she was a princess she had a pegasus.

The story is always better than your ability to write it.

I advise those who want to become writers to study veterinary medicine, which is easier. You don't want to be a writer unless you have no choice - and if you have no choice, good luck to you.

There are things you don't want to know you can do

My capacity for invention is flash hot stark, I thought. Sucker sunshade. Disembodied radar-reconnaissance. Not to mention Bitter Chocolate Death and Killer Zebras. Pity about the rest of me.

Perhaps it is a human thing, to look upon such beauty and fail to encompass it.

[Harry] had always suffered from a vague restlessness, a longing for adventure that she told herself severely was the result of reading too many novels when she was a small child.

It is a much more straightforward thing to be a dog, and a dog's love, once given, is not reconsidered.

And the bell jangled, the driver started. The bus whirled off, to the last stop, the lonely room, the lonely night.

We are, at least in part, who we remember ourselves to be. Take away our memories, and you take away our selves.

You’re nothing more than poison in my veins.

There is no such thing as a “social gospel.” It is a misnomer. There is only one Gospel. “If any man preach any other gospel unto you . . .let him be accursed” [Galatians 1:9 KJV].

The challenge of the unknown future is so much more exciting than the stories of the accomplished past.

Modesty is a shining light; it prepares the mind to receive knowledge, and the heart for truth.

You don't win by just being against things, you only win by being for things and making your message perfectly clear.

You guard against decay, in general, and stagnation, by moving, by continuing to move.

I would, therefore, say that for no reason whatsoever, except in self-defense, should one think of killing any animal.

The person who will give you unexplained happiness, will also be the reason for your unexplained sadness.