If you are a student you should always get a good nights sleep unless you have come to the good part of your book, and then you should stay up all night and let your schoolwork fall by the wayside, a phrase which means 'flunk'.

Sometimes the things you’ve lost can be found again in unexpected places.

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.

Occasionally there are parents who say, "I brought my child so he or she could learn what the career of a writer is like, and you did this long theatrical performance instead, and I'm very disappointed."

For Beatrice- My love for you shall live forever. You, however, did not.

For Beatrice, summer without you is as cold as winter. Winter without you, is even colder.

It looked like something the Hemlock needed, or a piece of equipment a plumber had left behind. It looked like none of your business.