What does it mean to pre-board? Do you get on before you get on?

Have you ever noticed that anybody driving slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac?

I was thinking about how people seem to read the Bible a whole lot more as they get older; then it dawned on me . . they’re cramming for their final exam.

I thought about how mothers feed their babies with tiny little spoons and forks so I wondered, what do Chinese mothers use? Toothpicks?

Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups.

Some people have no idea what they're doing, and a lot of them are really good at it.

All the media and the politicians ever talk about is things that separate us, things that make us different from one another

Don’t just teach your children to read… Teach them to question what they read. Teach them to question everything.

In America, anyone can become president. That's the problem.

Those who dance are considered insane by those who cannot hear the music.

There is a planet named Pluto, but we don't have one named Goofy. Goofy would be a good name for this planet. It certainly qualifies.

Between world and animal are fewer questions than between man and world. How many such questions are there in God's Word?

Watch, how the sunslowly risesfrom behind my earnew lines, new countriesspring up in my palmsmy rough hairbecome swaying silkand all the leavesin my bodybecome lusher than fruits.

A powerful vision has the therapeutic effect of numbing the cost of what it will cost you.

Lark: "You shouldn't yell at

The people that are making this world worse don't take a day off, how can I?

Faith enables the believing soul to treat the future as present and the invisible as seen.

Remember laughter. You'll need it even in the blessed isles of Ever After.

Writing is medicine. It is an appropriate antidote to injury. It is an appropriate companion for any difficult change.

Don't mess with me, lady. I've been drinking with skeletons.

Eventually, I came to believe, stupidly, that I had exhausted that story's "original" form with its single use. I went on to other stories, other forms and genres.