How can you do the right thing when you can't figure out what that is? When all you have before you are choices in various shades of wrong?

Unwinds didn't go out with a bang-they didn't even go out with a whimper. they went out with the silence of a candle flame pinched between two fingers.

The Bill of Life was signed, the Unwind Accord went into effect, and the war was over. Everyone was so happy to end the war, no one cared about the consequences

Fight, flight, and screw up royaly.

Small victories are bet­ter than none.

I'd rather be partly great than entirely useless.

Once in a while our school has half days, and the teachers spend the afternoon 'in service,' which I think must be a group therapy for having to deal with us.

(Why did they call them sneakers if it was so hard to sneak in them?)

People would cheer throw confetti and then go about breaking the resolutions they had made only moments before.

I think all mothers are alike, regardless of cultural background, when it comes to illogical cleaning.

It's called loitering, which is like littering with human beings as the trash.

The greatest truth is honesty, and the greatest falsehood is dishonesty.

I am president, I don't own the country so they are not my forces.

What is a monster? A being whose survival is incompatible with the existing order.

I didn't want it to have any technical virtuosity; I wanted it to just be really clear how it was made. For my work in general, it's always really clear how it is made.

There comes a point when you can more or less count the number of books you're going to write before you die.

Be happy in your body. It's the only one you've got, so you might as well like it.

Besides learning to see, there is another art to be learned - not to see what is not.

I grew up in a family of people who were obsessed with fashion.

No individual has sufficient experience, education, native ability and knowledge to ensure the accumulation of a great fortune, without the cooperation of other people.

My dad died when I was 14. It was very sudden, traumatic, and confusing. I always felt I could have gone down a bad road at that point, but I made a choice to be a winner.