Zee said, grumpily, “Liebling, this is not a good idea.” “Zee,” I told him, “I am completely out of good ideas and am doing my best with the bad ones I have left.

Some people are like Slinkies.They aren't really good for anything, but they still bring a smile to my face when I push them down a flight of stairs.

Evil must always be fought.

My will broke at the sound of his voice, and my head turned with as much inevitability as a sunflower turning its face to the sun.

A man says a lot of things in summer he doesn't mean in winter.

The only certainty life contains is death.

It is one of those lessons that every child should learn: Don't play with fire, sharp objects, or ancient artifacts.

When life doesn't meet your expectations, it was important to take it with grace.

If it looks like a hallway, feels like a hallway, and acts like a hallway—is it important to figure out that it isn’t a hallway?

Usually the people I do know are sufficient to spawn any number of nightmares without inventing any.

Anger is stupid, and stupidity will kill you more surely than your opponent's blade.

I was cranked to a fifth gear, and everything I did, I did on a deadline.

And so I begin to be free no longer trapped by the weakness in me.

I doubt it is your styleNot to get what you set out to acquireThe eyes are on fireYou are the unforecasted stormBrianstorm

Everywhere across whatever sorrows of which our life is woven, some radiant joy will gaily flash past.

In this situation I was constantly exposed to danger and death.

Self-esteem is the basis of any democracy.

Like nature itself, modern economic life is driven by relentless competition and unbridled selfishness. Or is it?

I think I'm under the radar enough where I don't think I'm typecast as anything yet, so I'm pretty free and clear.

I want it to be more natural. Right now it feels really forced. Seems like I've never done a curtsy before, which may be true. But I'm looking forward to nailing it.

It is for the benefit of mankind to mitigate the horrors of war as much as possible.