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

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.

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.

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?

We all are striving for something every minute of the day, whether we realize it or not.

You must befriend a few skeletons before you'll find your deepest self.

Doctrines are meant to serve man, not the other way around.

If I'm not passionate about it, I can't write it. I can't fake it.

Haste and escape for your lives, look not behind you, escape to the mountain, lest you be consumed.

I love the flexibility of saying, "Today we're making 50-foot paintings, and we're going to have to join hands and figure out how that's going to work." But in the end, it's a possibility.

When I eat something like vegetable bibimbap, I get that warm and fuzzy feeling of eating stuff that I grew up with.

You must go or send a substitute.

You have to live in a state of thinking your painting is good, or you couldn't do it.

What is the sound of an eighty-nine-year-old heart breaking?