About chocolate: "This is what laughing tastes like.

Mosquitoes are the greatest mass murderers on planet Earth.

Memories are precious ... they help tell us who we are.

Death's gruesome face taunts: soulless eyes, crimson grimace. I really hate clowns.

Tobias asked. "Weird? Weird?" Marco crowed. "The talking bird wants to know if getting information on the location of an alien from a whale, that you've just saved from sharks, by turning into dolphins . . . You're suggesting that's weird?

I think that in many ways, just as forgiveness is impossible without love, sometimes love requires forgiveness for it to work, too.

I like colorful tales with black beginnings and stormy middles and cloudless blue-sky endings. But any story will do.