I know you don’t understand, but sometimes we have to go back to go forward, ” he says.

I don’t give sick days if you’re playing in the snow.” He’s being funny, or trying to be funny. I can never tell which.

At this point, I realize: He is making a monster of me.

I’ll rid the world of each one of you, ” he whispered. “Every single one…

There’s an innocence to her still that amazes me. Sometimes I forget she’s older than me. Then, I remember that she hasn’t gone through what I’ve gone through.

Who am I kidding? This isn’t a fairy tale. It’s my life.

This world isn’t a fair place, because we never know how much time we’ve really got.

Words whipped around me, faster than I could catch 'em.

He who imagines he can do without the world deceives himself much but he who fancies the world cannot do without him is still more mistaken.

I am a straight talker. I am not politically correct or diplomatic.

I really can't say what inspires me the most, because I'm inspired by just about everything. My feelings and relationships, my family, Scooby-Doo. Opinion of my work. Everything. Not just one thing.

A pious woman's neighbor, a philanthropist's child, a liberal's servant--these three have a hard life.

The noble style immobilizes its subjects.

Not only, in strict truth, was marriage instituted for the propagation of the human race, but also that the lives of husbands and wives might be made better and happier.

We are against the majority tyrannizing the minority. But we are definitely against the minority tyrannizing the majority.

Neither of my parents has been very sensitive about my writing.

Work is the law of life, and to reject it as boredom is to submit to it as torment.