The future is like the moon. You never expect to go there, or think about what it might be like.

remembering is a great invention of the mind, and if you try hard enough you can remember anything, whether it really happened or not.

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

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.

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.

Do not despair, my friend. Today is theirs, but the future is ours

I never had a brian till freak came along.