Quotes from Ridley Pearson

Take your preaching elsewhere , boy . (hardcover) p294

Umbrellas made vain attempts to withhold the deluge;

She located a code on the document and used her computer terminal to look it up. "Postal money order." Daphne said, "Difficult if not impossible to trace.

Camera goes direct to a camcorder with an LCD display.

And pushed the button.

Postal money order." Daphne said, "Difficult if not impossible to trace.

You bet. Camera goes direct to a camcorder with an LCD display.

Each cop knew his own vulnerabilities; Boldt, whose daughter had once been threatened, guarded his carefully.

Peter's anomaly

There is just one moon and one golden sun—" Sun! Finn thought. What were they missing? "And a smile means friendship to ev'ryone—

Steel not only had an elephant's memory, he had the ears to go along with it:

including one for the holders of the Fastpass.

been stolen from Finn

For the first-time novelist you've got to get up at 5:30 in the morning and write until 7, make breakfast and go to work. Or, come home and work for an hour. Everybody has an hour in their day somewhere.

As a young boy, I read 'Cheaper by the Dozen' and immediately became neurotic about my use of time. It taxed me severely, but only for the next 50 years. But I think it also allowed me to discipline myself to sit in the chair and be a writer, where one of the most needed qualities is patience.

Always trust computer games.

I... do... not... do... lightning.

If you don't believe in yourself, who will?' ~Maybeck

There's a fine line between imagination and reality. An inventor dreams something up, and pretty soon, it's there on the table before him. A science-fiction writer envisions another world, and then some space probe finds it. If you believe in something strongly enough, I think you can make it happen.

Who's Chernabog?" Grumbled Maybeck. Philby answered,"Only the most powerful villian Walt Disney ever created.

The boys had asked why, if it acted slowly, was it called quicksand. The Mollusks had replied that, as far as they were concerned, most English names for things were silly. The word that they used for quicksand was a deep grunt that translated roughly to "uh-oh.

What do you care more about? The kids or your hair?

Be careful what you wear to bed, because you never know where you might wake up.

Especially with four insanely angry, sword-carrying pirates bearing down on you, followed closely by an alien with a genetic malfunction that posed like Elvis Presley and looked slightly like a cross between a koala and a cuddly dog.