We are respecting our parents' wishes....They didn't want to shelter us from the world's treacheries. They wanted us to survive them.

Various parts of my body told me that in the future they would appreciate it if I slept lying down on a bed instead of sitting at the counter of Black Cat Coffee. I quietly reassured them that this was an unusual situation, and had the machinery make me some bread as a breakfast.

The end of 'The End' is the best place to begin 'The End', because if you read 'The End' from the beginning of the beginning of 'The End' to the end of the end of 'The End', you will arrive at the end.

If you don’t care about something, one way to demonstrate your feelings is to say the word and then repeat the word with the letters S-C-H-M replacing the first letters. Somebody who didn’t care about dentists, for instance could say ‘Dentist, schmentists.

Everybody has a theory.

All his life, Klaus had believed that if you read enough books, you could solve any problem, but now he wasn't so sure.

I suppose I'll have to add the force of gravity to my list of enemies.