Miracles are like pimples, because once you start looking for them you find more than you ever dreamed you'd see.

'Help me,' Allison says, but she is soft-spoken, and everyone she loves is so far away.

Waiting is one of life’s hardships.

I always think it's silly when people talk about works of culture taking risks. Because there's not any risk involved.

There are many things in life that become different if you take a long look at them.

There's information about everything from poetry to pills, from picture frames to pyramids, and from pudding to psychology--and that's just in the P aisle, which we're walking down right now.

Wishing, like sipping a glass of punch, or pulling aside a bearskin rug in order to access a hidden trapdoor in the floor, is merely a quiet way to spend one's time before the candles are extinguished on one's birthday cake.