Why did adults have to be so thick? They always say 'tell the truth, ' and when you do, they don't believe you. What's the point?

Fairness does not mean everyone gets the same. Fairness means everyone gets what they need.

It takes strength and courage to admit the truth.

I sailed on the cold air currents above the rooftops of Paris. I could see the river, the Louvre Museum, the gardens and palaces. And a mouse-yum. Hang on, Carter, I thought. not hunting mice.

Have you ever noticed how parents can go from the most wonderful people in the world to totally embarrassing in three seconds?

To all my librarian friends, champions of books, true magicians in the House of Life. Without you, this writer would be lost in the Dust.

You know how hard it is to feel like an extreme falcon-headed combat machine when somebody calls you "chicken man"?

I tried to think of something to say. Excuse me? Hello? Marry me? Anything would have done.

Oh no." I said panic rising in my chest. "No, no, no, Somebody get a can opener. I've got a god in my head!!

Fair means everyone gets what they need. And the only way to get what you need is to make it happen yourself.

Right, " Sadie said. "And Set will just stand there calmly while I read him to death.

Listen, murderer, I don’t want to hear anything you have to say!” Jackson growled loudly.

Often life is a frantic avoidance of the truth.

How shall I sum up my life? I think I’ve been particularly lucky.

I hear an almost inaudible but pervasive discontent with the price we pay for our current materialism. And I hear a fluttering of hope that there might be more to life than bread and circuses.

Civilization is a social plague on the planet, and vices are just as necessary to it as is a virus to disease.

There's a terror in knowing what the world is about

I hate, loathe, and despise Christmas. It's a time when single people have to take cover or get out of town.

It's so much easier for me to get up and be someone else than expressing my own thoughts and feelings.

The feminists hate me, don't they? And I don't blame them. For I hate feminism. It is poison.

Intelligence guided by the will using memory and imagination assisted by intuition.