There are many reasons, of course, why someone might snap their fingers and grin. If you heard some pleasing music, for instance, you might snap your fingers and grin to demonstrate that the music had charms that could soothe your savage breast. If you were employed as a spy, you might snap your fingers and grin in order to deliver a message in secret snapping-and-grinning code.

Temper tantrums, however fun they may be to throw, rarely solve whatever problem is causing them.

It is always terrible to be told to go play with people one doesn't know.

We are all told to ignore bullies. It's something they teach you, and they can teach you anything. It doesn't mean you learn it. It doesn't mean you believe it. One should never ignore bullies. One should stop them.

There is no worse sound in the world than someone who cannot play the violin but insists on doing so anyway.

The movie was kickass, which was appropriate, because tonight it was called Kickass: The Movie.

If you know somebody very well, like your grandmother or your baby sister, you will know when they are real and when they are fake.