did you ever see anybody so disgusting: said lightning to thunder, "never" thunder growled thunder, "lets give him the works

Oh, Life, I am yours. Whatever it is you want of me, I am ready to give.

I think I feel a little differently than other people do. For some reason I've never felt grown up.

To tell the truth, I don't read children's books. I'm an adult. I just write them.

I've always despised old people. I got angry at my father when he began to show signs of age.

How deeply one felt when alone.

He was able to love them again, but he loved them now in a wiser way, knowing their weakness.

Why had he wanted to be rich, or to feel rich? Was he an unhappy mouse before? Didn't he see the King himself often looking sad? Was anyone completely happy?

The world was all magic, and he had a special bottle of it in his right hand.

The stubbornness of his character stood him now in good stead. He refused to consider himself defeated.

He began to develop an obstinate patience.

...every human being is doomed to die, which is the greatest of all failures.

Some people live for the sake of their partners and derive their strength and energy from them

That's what I look at some people for. I like to know about them. I think them over afterward.

It's dreadful what little things lead people to misunderstand each other.

Never forget that your role as a leader is to be a steward for future generations.

I don't mind my work being a record of the time it was written in.

When I get sent manuscripts from aspiring poets, I do one of two things: if there is no stamped self-addressed envelope, I throw it into the bin.-If there is, I write and tell them to f**k off.

Life is like underwear, should be changed twice a day.

Our character is basically a composite of our habits.

Cyberspace is where you are when you're on the telephone.