Hark, ” he said, his tone very dry. “What stone through yonder window breaks?”Kami yelled up at him, “It is the east, and Juliet is a jerk!

Wearing that? Wouldn't you fancy a shapeless cardigan instead? You rock a shapeless cardigan, honey.

She walked beside Jared, four inches of rain-dashed darkness between her hanging wrist and his.

There was silence in her head and silence beneath her window, and still she could not sleep.

Kami got to school the next day without any incidents like being kidnapped by pirates or having the earth open up and swallow her, which on the whole Kami thought was a pity.

Forest deep, silent bellsThere's a secret no one tellsValley quiet, water stillLynburns watching on the hillApples red, corn goldAlmost everyone grows old

Do me a favour and go out and perform one of the activities I hear the youth enjoy this Friday, like defacing public property.

The biggest adventure you can ever take is to live the life of your dreams.

We are all too often told by someone that we are too old, too young, too different, too much the same, and those comments can be devastating.

Love is blazing fire.

Beware of the stories you read or tell; subtly, at night, beneath the waters of consciousness, they are altering your world.

A man is ever apt to contemplate himself out of all proportion to his surroundings.

Liberty is no heirloom. It requires the daily bread of self-denial, the salt of law and, above all, the backbone of acknowledging responsibility for our deeds.

Adventure is the champagne of life.

For, once begun, Your task is easy; half the work is done.

I struggled for a long time to get anything published.

The United States military are preparing weapons which could be used against the aliens, and they could get us into an intergalactic war without us ever having any warning.