Is that clear?" said Borcht "as clear as pea soup" I said

The best way to get kids reading more is to give them books that they'll gobble up - and that will make them ask for another.

I won’t lie to you—it was hilarious. Yes, we were in trouble, yes, this was a disaster, and so one and so forth, but I have to say, seeing those upturned faces, the looks, was bout the best thing that happened to us since we’d come to New York.

Is dere anysing special about you? Anysing vorth saving?" Besides my fashion sense? I play a mean harmonica.

Is it important to be right or is it important to do what's right? That's one of the hardest lessons to learn.

The weird, weird thing about devastating loss is tha life actually goes on.

If by 'miracle kids' you mean innocent test-tube babies whose DNA was forcibly unraveled and merged with two percent avian genes, yeah, I guess that would be us," I said. "Because it's a miracle that we're not complete nut jobs and mutant disasters.