It is often said that before you die your life passes before your eyes. It is in fact true. It's called living.

I should have learned this, she thought. I wanted to learn fire, and pain, but I should have learned people.

She got on with her education. In her opinion, school kept on trying to interfere with it.

Lots of people would be as cowardly as me if they were brave enough.

Tomorrow is the first day of the rest of our lives.

Studies have shown that an ant can carry one hundred times its own weight, but there is no known limit to the lifting power of the average tiny eighty-year-old Spanish peasant grandmother.

It was then that Marvin got religion. Not the quiet, personal kind, that involves doing good deeds and living a better life; not even the kind that involves putting on a suit and ringing people's doorbells; but the kind that involves having your own TV network and getting people to send you money.