we're all freaks sometimes, Melody, " he replied. "You're just... well, better at it than most.

Joel, lad, school is about learning to learn. If you don't practice studying things you don't like, then you'll have a very hard time in life.

Not having ice cream, ” she proclaimed, “is the culmination of all disasters!

If you want to achieve anything you must first see the result in your own mind before it will become a reality.

Don't write about Man

This is it.

An hour before his world exploded like a ripe tomato under a stiletto heel, Myron bit into a fresh pastry that tasted suspiciously like urinal cake.

Imagination has rules, but we can only guess what they are.

Have a go. Anybody can do it.

The opportunity to lecture had restored my good humor.

I suppose you can't take kids into consideration all the time, but I just wish there could be a bit of flexibility.

What Kierkegaard said about love is also true of creativity: every person must start at the beginning.

It is easy for me to imagine that the next great division of the world will be between people who wish to live as creatures and people who wish to live as machines.