Sometimes I think that ideas float through the atmosphere like huge squishy pumpkins, waiting for heads to drop on.

You know what killed off the dinosaurs, Whateley? We did. In one barbecue.

I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes, then you are making new things, trying new things, learning, living, pushing yourself, changing yourself, changing your world. You're doing things you've never done before, and more importantly, you're Doing Something.

For a moment he thought she was about to hit him, which would have been bad, or even start crying, which would have been much, much worse.

I don't know if any single book made me want to write. C.S. Lewis was the first writer to make me aware that somebody was writing the book I was reading - these wonderful parenthetical asides to the reader.

I very rarely want to go back and fix things, because I'm much more interested in the next thing, and in taking what I learned from the things that don't work, and applying them to new things that may work.

It is a fool's prerogative to utter truths that no one else will speak.