There are really no guidelines whatsoever, because this is the kind of thing that only happens to ME.

I dove on those papers like Sherlock Holmes on a cappuccino binge.

You look like a handsome young man…although you might want to zip your fly. Mom! What? Should I have not told you and left it for everyone else to notice at the dance?

Instead of agonizing about the things you can't change, why don't you try working on the things you can change

Chicks dig a dude who’s sporting the latest eggplant turtleneck styles.

But nobody ever tells you in advance when you should concentrate on the good times-that's why you're supposed to do it every day.

If you promise you will get better instead of dying, I promise I will, too.

It was like seeing Bill Gates at age thirteen, times two. And half of him was wearing a cheerleader uniform. Yes, I know that’s a weird image.

And if there was one thing I'd finally figured out, it was that your mind is something you always CAN change.

Some kids do drugs. Some kids light stuff on fire. Me, I eat oats.

(Yes teenage boys who are fine always cry on their mothers’ shoulders until they leave a snot trail.)

Abundance in life is achieved only when we tear down walls and fill our lives with light.

One cannot shape the world without being reshaped in the process. Each gain of power requires its own sacrifice.

Without adventure all civilization is full of decay. Adventure rarely reaches its predetermined end. Columbus never reached China.

It was hidden inside another book. One Valentine was unlikely to ever open." Magnus smiled crookedly. "Simple Recipes for Housewives. No one can say your mother didn't have a sense of humor.

Not to be lost in idle admiration is the only sure means of making and preserving happiness.

Literary detection and firearms don't really go hand in hand; pen mighter than the sword and so forth.

I believe such passion-even passion born of fear and anxiety-is far better than a life of banality.

The first casualty of war is innocence.

MEN, Charlene said. Leave that to you! Willa quipped.

As you get older, you see how rapidly the years and decades fly by, so I would encourage anyone, no matter the age, to seize their life and be fully present.