There was something special about being in a strange place, all alone in a mass of people even if you had just screwed up your life, or perhaps especially if you had just screwed up your life.

It is better to take many small steps in the right direction than to make a great leap forward only to stumble backward.

If only, if only," the woodpecker sighs, "The bark on the tree was as soft as the skies." While the wolf waits below, hungry and lonely, Crying to the moo-oo-oon, "If only, If only.

It was all because of his no-good-dirty-rotten-pig-stealinggreat-great-grandfather!

You need a reason to be sad. You don't need a reason to be happy.

The impossible is more believable than the highly improbable.

An idea doesn't die," said Trapp. "It exists somewhere, in its own dimension, waiting to be perceived.

He could hardly lift his spoon during breakfast, and then he was out on the lake, his spoon soon replaced by a shovel.

There is no lake at Camp Green Lake.

In a way, it made him sad. He couldn't help but think that a hundred times zero was still nothing.

Whenever you give someone a present or sing a holiday song, you're helping Santa Claus. To me, that's what Christmas is all about. Helping Santa Claus!

Knock, And He'll open the doorVanish, And He'll make you shine like the sunFall, And He'll raise you to the heavensBecome nothing, And He'll turn you into everything.

He let the curtain drop and the terrible light that had played on his features went off to play somewhere more healthy.

A lot of people fail to prosper because they are too busy dreaming in their sleep than chasing their dreams in life.

What is this world? A mere curl of smoke for the wind to scatter.

He ... knew, in that instant, that his life would not be an easy one-he was different, he looked different, he thought differently.

Why had I become a writer in the first place? Because I wasn't fit for society; I didn't fit into the system.

I don't read that many novels, I'm more of a nonfiction fan.

Oh captain, my captain, bon voyage.

What people see on court is another side of me; it's not me.

Human science is an uncertain guess.