We must curb ourfury, and allow sadness to diminish, and speak our stories with coolness and deliberation.

it's like a squid in love with the sky.

I do not know what I regret. I sit with my pen, and cannot find an end to that sentence.

The sky was as blue as a stupid postcard, and the islands were as green as islands.

The natural world is so adaptable...So adaptable you wonder what's natural.

Older teens tend to write to me and say, 'Thank you for not writing down to teenagers.'

Whispering makes a narrow place narrower.

Why not write a book which is as sophisticated as a book for an adult, but is about the concerns that teenagers actually have?

It's insulting to believe that teens should have a different kind of book than an adult should.

Teens are not like the weird, dumb dwarves you have around your house. They are actually you when you were younger.

I can't tell you how irritating it is to be an atheist in a haunted house.

All men are equal but their graces and abilities separates them and makes certain things possible for them than for others.

I'm a crack shot and I've won medals for shooting. But I don't think I could shoot a person.

Government is afraid that people may think the worst and panic about these creepy horrible invaders. So the idea is: We have to avoid panic by all means.

The rockets... can be built so powerfully that they could be capable of carrying a man aloft.

Our consciences are not infallible, and they can become warped or weakened if not kept aligned by the infallible Word of God.

Law shuttles between freeing us and enslaving us.

I think there's something fun about television where, as an actor, when you read the script each week, it's like how the audience experiences watching the show each week.

Profit for a company is like oxygen for a person. If you don't have enough of it, you're out of the game. But if you think your life is about breathing, you're really missing something.

I am passionate about football. My support for Celtic FC has got me through some hard times in my life. I still play regularly, too.

People are under the impression that dictionaries legislate language. What a dictionary does is keep track of usages over time.