I have no idea,' he tells her, and there is such a spark in his eye when he says it, she can tell having no idea is exactly the way he wants it.

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.

Education has multiple purposes, but learning how to ask essential questions and how to challenge dogma, tradition, and injustice in appropriate and constructive ways is its highest purposes.

Heaven can only help those whose frequent thoughts, decisions, and actions are constantly in the directions of their goals and dreams.

There is nothing wrong withwanting more. There is no reasonwhy you shouldn’t get everythingyou want from life.

If you give a writer a line, they'll take a paragraph…

This man was once my salvation. Now, he will be my ruin.

The only thing some people do is get older.

Training to become champion is the toughest thing. The fight itself is just a test.

Each problem has hidden in it an opportunity so powerful that it literally dwarfs the problem.

It is an occupational hazard of devout folk to become stuffy bores. This should not be. Of all people, we should be the most free, alive, interesting.

Reality, like beauty, is in relationship and there only.