He knew one thing for sure, though. Whatever happened, Matt would have some handy excuse. He'd make up some story or change an old one, find some dumb quote to explain it all.

Standing in the corridor was a large plastic bin on wheels. He looked inside. Empty tins of dog food. That explained the spaghetti with meat sauce. Oh well, he'd eaten worse.

My gran always said I was half clever, half stupid, and half crazy.

If a wolf attacks his sheep, the shepard kills the wolf, but he eats the sheep when he's hungry.

We was half stupid, a third lucky, and three-quarters ferocious.

You got to harden yourself. Make, like, a shell around you. But not everyone can do it. If they got nothing to hang on to some of them screw up. They’re not in the game no more.

No such word as can't. No such word as babagoozle neither!

Writing is a bit like being a god

I'm sick and tired of being sick and tired, ' said Maxie.'I know how that feels, ' said Blue.'I think some Pharaoh had that carved on his tomb, ' Maxie added.'Yeah? Times don't change much, do they?

Remember what I done for you here today, ' he shouted and passed out.

I’m different, ” said the Kid. “My gran always said I was half clever, half stupid, and half crazy.

You don't need faith to walk on the riverbank, you need faith to walk on water.

You have to care about how good you are and how good you feel, but not about how good people think you are or how good people think you look.

I don't have a religion, you know. This is what I am. I am a Rastaman; so this is not religion. This is life.

Live the present intensely and fully, do not let the past be a burden, and let the future be an incentive. Each person forges his or her own destiny.

Fashion starts with fashionable people.

People sometimes ask me, "You're still in a primary - why are you criticizing [Donald] Trump?" It's because I don't want what he's saying to stand unanswered.

True gardeners cannot bear a glove Between the sure touch and the tender root.

One swallow alone does not make a summer.

This is Leo. I'm the... What's my title? Am I like, admiral, or captain, or..." "Repair boy." "Very funny, Piper.

If you have fairy blood, even in the tiniest degree, you must live close to Fairy Land, and eat a little fairy food, or else you will always be hungry.