Once you decide that mediocrity is unthinkable, your only choices are excellence and quitting.
A man is never astonished that he doesn't know what another does, but he is surprised at the gross ignorance of the other in not knowing what he does.
Circumstances alter cases.
Punctuality is the sole of business.
[Grateful] Cheerfulness is health; its opposite, [ungrateful] melancholy, is disease.
There is music wherever there is harmony, order, or proportion.
Give me a chance, says Stupid, and I will show you. Ten to one he has had his chance already, and neglected it.
My goal with The Adventures of Captain Underpants was to invent a style which was almost identical to that of a picture book - in a novel format. So I wrote incredibly short chapters and tried to fill each page with more pictures than words. I wanted to create a book that kids who don't like to read would want to read.
A friend in word is never friend of mine.
I tend not to listen. When I'm listening to records, I don't listen to much new wave stuff, I tend to listen to the stuff I used to listen to a few years back but sort of odd singles.
Grief knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can; and common sufferings are far stronger links than common joys.