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Pizza and a movie (Escape to Witch Mountain, my all-time Disney favorite)

What do you have against penguins?' he asks. 'They're like really big birds in tuxedos. They're always ready for a fancy dance.

orange trail leading down to the kitchen and

of a heart attack from all this stress, I'd be impressed with her dedication. I can't think of a single instance in my life when I've tried

Qalamoun is near the border with Lebanon, so there were conflicts every now and then.

The cat sat on the mat is not a story. The cat sat on the other cat's mat is a story. —JOHN LE CARRÉ

Mallory sat propped up in bed, her laptop, appropriately enough, in her lap,

whenever I do a signing or a talk, people are really curious about the business and the whole creative process.

There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are. —W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM

If you just send me the tuition money for summer session, I'll . . ." "No." "What?" Clearly it had never occurred to him that his request might be refused.

People think we had a love-hate relationship. Well, I did not love him, nor did I hate him. We had mutual respect for each other, even as we both planned each other's murder.

Tokens of affection ease the wariness of time.

I was convicted of three misdemeanors of willful failure to file a form.

4. The authority of the Holy Scripture, for which it ought to be believed, and obeyed, dependeth not upon the testimony of any man, or Church; but wholly upon God (who is truth itself) the author thereof: and therefore it is to be received, because it is the Word of God.

I think he's wonderful and strange and kind of like a poem.

It is very easy to claim a theory of everything if you get to decide what that everything is. It is very easy to explain everything on the table if you have put everything you cannot explain underneath it in the wastebasket.

Go back to your own timeline Wil Wheaton!

Yes, he called Voyager "V'ger," in reference to Star Trek: The Motion Picture. But he's not a Trekkie. Because "Trekkies are weird.

I change from present to past tense and back again, and use an annoying passive voice throughout the whole thing.

Picard only saw the movie, which had the entire Tales of the Black Starship subplot removed for time.

Your color's nice, James—pity about your face, though," said a freight car.

JAMES AND THE TROUBLE WITH TREES Thomas the Tank Engine had been working in the coal yards all day.

Bother," said Thomas. "A bath would make me feel much better. The others are sure to say I look silly.

I hate politics. I like to write about it, but to get involved in it, to try and make a lot of ignorant people do what you want them to do, waste of time. Go and write a book. It's more important and it'll last longer.