I don't know if you've ever noticed this, but first impressions are often entirely wrong.

Criminals should be punished, not fed pastries.

It seemed to me that every adult did something terrible sooner or later. And every child, I thought, sooner or later becomes an adult.

You might be afraid of the dark, but the dark is not afraid of you. That’s why the dark is always close by.

I am heartbroken, but I have been heartbroken before, and this might be the best for which I can hope.

Members of your family might say they are working hard all day long, while you are off at school or clarinet lessons, but the only way to know this for sure is to follow them at a discreet distance.

I'm always interested to see what films are made of books. I kind of don't participate as a filmgoer in any kind of debate about what's better, the book or the movie. So I think it's interesting when people want to do it.