I'm not stupid!" In Bean's experience, that was a sentence never uttered except to prove its own inaccuracy.

Order and disorder', said the speaker, 'they each have their beauty.

Home is where the people who live there need me to come home to them, and worry about me when I'm gone. There's no such place on this earth, no matter how far I drive.

Evil people naturally assume that you will use that power exactly as they would use it.

For children love is a feeling; for adults, it is a decision. Children wait to learn if their love is true by seeing how long it lasts; adults make their love true by never wavering from their commitment.

The education that prepared me was my general education classes, which I tried to avoid when I was a stupid undergraduate, but which gave me the foundation of general knowledge that makes a career as a writer possible.

Do not shout at me, Mr. Quill," said John [Adams]. "Justice may be blind, but she is not deaf.