I have known lots of adults who enjoyed similar enthusiasms as a kid and weren't encouraged and then didn't go anywhere with it and so they're unhappy in their jobs as adults.

I did not win and in fact I was called into the principal's office for a consultation with my parents. But that was the beginning of my literary career.

And they're also very good at math, these super boogers, and so they teach Billy the ways of mathematics.

Watch over our child. Guide him safely from the ways of harm. Keep happy his heart, brave his soul, and rosy his cheeks. Guard with your life his hopes and dreams, for he is all that we have, all that we are, and all that we will ever be.

You know, I hate to give advice because my life has been so odd that almost nothing that's happened to me can apply.

you know, a daydream properly utilized can be the most powerful force in the universe. One need only dream of freedom to begin to break the spell of enslavement.

Life is made up of danger and heartbreak, I laugh in the face of both!