If you're in the room, I want to be next to you. If you're gone, I think about you. You're who I want to talk to. In a fight, I want you at my back. When we're together the sun is shining. When we're apart, everything is in shades of gray.

Be calm. Be Zen. You are Buddha.

I don't believe in lecturing people. It's much more effective to present reading as a fun, rewarding pastime.

Besides my great fashion sense? I play a mean harmonica.

I don't smile as much as I should, even though I smile inside a lot.

The trick to having obedient, unquestioning children was to have death be the other option

But what is life if you don't live it?