But if she'd realized that nine desiccated zombie nymphs would be waiting for her, she never would have come down here.

I think kids will read more good books than we can possibly produce.

Lookin up at the huge baboons, I wondered if Khufu had some sort of secret baboon code that would get us in. But instead he barked at the statues and cowered heroically behind my legs.

Evil is easy to fight. Lack of wisdom...that is very hard indeed.

You know how hard it is to feel like an extreme falcon-headed combat machine when somebody calls you "chicken man"?

Once he'd even reprogrammed the electronic billboards in Time Square to read: ALL DA LADIES LUV LEO... accidentally, of course.

Some pain shouldn’t be wished away so easily. It has to be dealt with, even embraced.