I sailed on the cold air currents above the rooftops of Paris. I could see the river, the Louvre Museum, the gardens and palaces. And a mouse-yum. Hang on, Carter, I thought. not hunting mice.

Fairness does not mean everyone gets the same. Fairness means everyone gets what they need.

It takes strength and courage to admit the truth.

Have you ever noticed how parents can go from the most wonderful people in the world to totally embarrassing in three seconds?

To all my librarian friends, champions of books, true magicians in the House of Life. Without you, this writer would be lost in the Dust.

You know how hard it is to feel like an extreme falcon-headed combat machine when somebody calls you "chicken man"?

I tried to think of something to say. Excuse me? Hello? Marry me? Anything would have done.

Oh no." I said panic rising in my chest. "No, no, no, Somebody get a can opener. I've got a god in my head!!

Fair means everyone gets what they need. And the only way to get what you need is to make it happen yourself.

Right, " Sadie said. "And Set will just stand there calmly while I read him to death.

Why did adults have to be so thick? They always say “tell the truth, ” and when you do, they don’t believe you. What’s the point?

If I'm not working and I'm here and bored, I'll go online and look for a new thing or kind of make up my own.

The least flower, with brimming cup, may stand and share its dew drop with another near.

I did not particularly enjoy modeling. I felt I was only utilizing 10 or 20 percent of my abilities. In India, it's just another job.

It was his eyes. When you looked into them, you saw chained violence baring teeth and claws back at you.

He who thinks half-heartedly will not believe in God; but he who really thinks has to believe in God.

Blood City III: The Massacre. I'd read the summary of it online, and frankly, it sounded like the directors had just decided to film my life.

In our culture, futility plays the role of transgression and fashion is condemned for having within it the force of the pure sign which signifies nothing.

Europeans are greater than they have been since any time since the end of the Cold War.

No one has ever succeeded in keeping nations at war except by lies.

When a system is stable, telling the worker about mistakes is only tampering.