Anyone who thinks the pen is mightier than the sword has not been stabbed with both.

Sometimes words are not enough.

Tears are curious things, for like earthquakes or puppet shows, they can occur at any time, without any warning and without any good reason.

A good thing to do when one is sitting, eating, and resting is to have a conversation.

People who say money doesn’t matter are like people who say cake doesn’t matter—it’s probably because they’ve already had a few slices.

Sometime during your life—in fact, very soon—you may find yourself reading a book, and you may notice that a book’s first sentence can often tell you what sort of story your book contains.

I was not a particularly brave child, I think, because I had a narrative mind, because my mind automatically went to any terrible thing that could happen.