Try as we might to postpone them, days of reckoning inevitably arrive.

Don't let the brownies bite.

False humility is more insulting than open pride!

In short, heroism means doing the right thing regardless of the consequences.

An unread book does nobody any good. Stories happen in the mind of a reader, not among symbols printed on a page.

Smart people learn from their mistakes. But the real sharp ones learn from the mistakes of others.

Want a reliable road to emotional and spiritual suicide? Spend your life trying to fit in.

Hello, cell. How are you? Still dank and dirty? Me? I've taken up a new habit: talking to my cell. It's like talking to myself but slightly more pathetic.

Running toward danger is foolhardy. ... But so is closing your eyes to it. Many perils become less dangerous once you understand their potential hazards.

FABLEHAVEN: None who enter will leave unchanged. Trespassers will be turned to stone.

Hard to call it a party without sardines.

When you live by the demands and supply of life, Life stops being a mystery to you

Do not disturb the sleeping dog.

Lil Wayne is a music god!!!!

Writing's not always a pleasure to me, but if I'm not writing every other pleasure loses its savour.

That sweet sleep which medicines all pain.

Everyone has some inner power that awaits discovery.

I still feel 29. Maybe I should act my age more, but I just can't.

I seem to have been everywhere in the last 30 years, maybe not in the epicenter but flying around the periphery of extraordinary events and equally extraordinary people.

They say you're not supposed to put metal in a microwave oven. They're right.

Hence no force, however great, can stretch a cord, however fine, into a horizontal line which is accurately straight: there will always be a bending downwards.