He looked like those paintings of baby angels - what do you call them, hubbubs? No cherubs. That's it. He looked like a cherub who'd turned middle-aged in a trailer park.

He was slumped over, blood trickling from the side of his mouth. I shook his furry hip, thinking, No! Even if you are half barnyard animal, you're my best friend and I don't want you to die!

Even strength must bow to wisdom sometimes.

If my life is going to mean anything, I have to live it myself.

It's funny how humans can wrap their mind around things and fit them into their version of reality.

Humans see what they want to see.

Earthshaker, Stormbreaker, Father of Horses. Hail, Perseus Jackson, Son of the Sea God

Go on with what your heart tells you, or you will lose all.

The real world is where the monsters are.

Knowing too much of your future is never a good thing.

i held it up, and tried to channel happy dog thoughts toward Cerberus- Alpo commercials, cute little puppies, fire hydrants.

I'm the scratchy stuff on the side of the matchbox. But that's fine with me. I don't mind at all. Better to be a first-class matchbox than a second-class match.

Ladies and gentlemen, let us hear the demand of life and adhere to it. It would do us good

There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it and no happiness in any place except what you bring to it yourself.

I love Hot Fudge Sundaes; I could die for Hot Fudge Sundaes.

i dunno," i said, "but i have an idea that people who don't think too much tend to look younger longer

If you're missing joy and peace, you're not trusting God.

I think what makes a good actor's director is the same thing that makes a good director. Acting is just one of the trades necessary to make a movie.

You have my assurance that we will respond with full force should the settlement be violated by North Vietnam.

Every failure made me more confident. Because I wanted even more to achieve as revenge, to show that I could.

I think the supernatural is a catch-all for everything we don't understand about the vast other parts of life that we cannot perceive.