Courage is the moment when an ordinary being becomes an extraordinary being.

I am a people watcher and I have a very good memory.

I think that others can drive a creature to naughtiness, always accusing and blaming them. After a while it must make the creature unhappy and drive him...to be naughty, because nobody expects them to be good.

Where's the point in fighting and slaying if you can make a friend out of anybeast instead of a foe?

I will not stand here to be insulted by you, hedgepig," Mangiz fumed. "Then stand somewhere else and I'll insult you there, featherbag!!

I wrote about a bird that cleaned a crocodile's teeth. The story was so good that my teacher could not believe that a ten-year-old could write that well. I was even punished because my teacher thought I'd lied about writing it! I had always loved to write, but it was then that I realized that I had a talent for it.

Aha! Today I shall become an author! And I will auth and auth and auth and make a squillion dollars, whoopee!