Pain is just a state of mind. You can think your way out of everything, even pain.

I could tell you all the medical terminology,' She says. 'But what finally happened is his heart got to big for his body'

It all boils down to this: A person has only two options in life, to do something or to do nothing.

Bean finds the best apple in our tree and hands it up to me. "You know what this tastes like when you first bite into it?" she asks. "No, what?" "Blue sky." "You're zoomed." "You ever eat blue sky?" "No," I admit. "Try it sometime," she says. "It's apple-flavored.

I wrote Freak the Mighty because Max, the mighty half of Freak the Mighty, insisted and he's bigger than I am.

It's fun to be amazing, to be the star of the show, to have everyone watching you-even if you have to act like a pig.

Expel the object!" Freak shouts. "Regurgitate, you big moron!" and he gives me another thump and I cough up this yucky mess, but I'm still laughing so hard my nose is running.