My tombstone is going to say: 'Born: Yes. Died: Yes.

Do you think it's possible that love multiples? We're taught to think it divides. There's only so much to go around, like diamonds. It multiples.

Well, we're just All-American queers.

I'm not an addictive personality, I just like getting high, that's all.

You have nothing to fear in life, not you, not anyone, because every bad thing you think can happen will- but not always in the form you imagine

I have changed my definition of tragedy. I now think tragedy is not foul deeds done to a person (usually noble in some manner) but rather that tragedy is irresolvable conflict.

Everybody gets married. It's something you have to do, like dying.

You gay?” “Oh, I wouldn’t say I was gay. I’d just say I was enchanted.” “Me too.

The tax code will never be simplified in our lifetime because it’s not about taxes; it’s about congressmen distributing the pork.

Whenever a young thing wants to be free minus serious thought, she gets pregnant and then gets married. Voil !

Course I didn't want to be a doctor. I was going to be president only I kept it secret.

Anyway, how did I know the president was for real? I never saw him, just pictures in the paper and they can make those up. How do you know someone is real if you don't see him?

In school they told us the president was the best man in the whole country but I knew my father was the best man in the whole country; the country didn't know it, that's all.

A peacefulness follows any decision, even the wrong one.

You can't pee in front of little Lord Jesus, go back to the hills.

Then you stay in that root cellar until Jesus comes back.

I don’t care whether they like me or not. Everybody’s stupid, that’s what I think. I care if I like me, that’s what I truly care about.

Because the real worship is not one man, one vote, it’s one man, one dollar. Commerce drives democracy, not vice versa.

At least Jennifer was beyond being tormented by itchy dresses.

No one is ever safe. So why not live as much as you can?

Full bloom, the pastures turning an impossible emerald green, she

Small log cabin once stood near the creek, but as the Jones family’s fortunes

They’re walking around in clothing but they’re still the same animals who lived in caves, feared the dark, and smashed one another over the head for beans.

Given that 80 percent plus of the U.S. population lives in cities and suburbs, the connection with nature is fading to the detriment of all living creatures.

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He thought how strange life was. The certainties vanish. What takes their place is resourcefulness and thanking God for life.

Those who don't believe in magic will never find it.

And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don't believe in magic will never find it.

So please, oh please, we beg, we pray, Go throw your TV set away, And in its place you can install A lovely bookshelf on the wall. Then fill the shelves with lots of books.

So please, oh please, we beg, we pray, go throw your TV set away, and in its place you can install, a lovely bookshelf on the wall.

Don't gobblefunk around with words.

It doesn't matter who you are or what you look like, so long as somebody loves you.

A little nonsense now and then, is cherished by the wisest men.

We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams.

Matilda said, "Never do anything by halves if you want to get away with it. Be outrageous. Go the whole hog. Make sure everything you do is so completely crazy it's unbelievable...

Grown ups are complicated creatures, full of quirks and secrets.

If you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.

Do you know what breakfast cereal is made of? It's made of all those little curly wooden shavings you find in pencil sharpeners!

A person is a fool to become a writer. His only compensation is absolute freedom. He has no master except his own soul, and that, I am sure, is why he does it

I understand what you're saying, and your comments are valuable, but I'm gonna ignore your advice.

I'm right and you're wrong, I'm big and you're small, and there's nothing you can do about it.

Two rights don't equal a left.

Mr. Wonka: "Don’t forget what happened to the man who suddenly got everything he wanted." Charlie Bucket: "What happened?" Mr. Wonka: "He lived happily ever after.

We have so much time and so little to do. Strike that, reverse it.

Two hours of writing fiction leaves this writer completely drained. For those two hours he has been in a different place with totally different people.

It's a funny thing about mothers and fathers. Even when their own child is the most disgusting little blister you could ever imagine, they still think that he or she is wonderful.

You should never, never doubt something that no one is sure of.

I'm wondering what to read next." Matilda said. "I've finished all the children's books.

A little magic can take you a long way.

You seemed so far away," Miss Honey whispered, awestruck. "Oh, I was. I was flying past the stars on silver wings," Matilda said. "It was wonderful.