"I find that short stories are almost like palate cleansers or brain cleansers."

“If you're not enjoying yourself, you can't really look as if you are.”

“Don't ascribe to evil what can be attributed to well-intentioned stupidity.”

Source : James A. Owen (2015). “Time of the Dragons: The Indigo King; The Shadow Dragons”, p.574, Simon and Schuster

“Petting is the study of the anatomy in braille.”

“My mother stopped working when she had my brother. She was a full time mom until I started getting heavily into ice skating lessons, and it got to the point where they really needed my mom to earn an income.”

Source : "Gold Medal Figure Skater". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 17, 2000.

“You are my sunshine my only sunshine. You make me happy when skies are grey. You'll never know dear how much I love you. Please don't take my sunshine away.”

Source : "You Are My Sunshine" (song) (1930). Cowritten with Charles Mitchell.

“I have no doubt that aggressively going after wrongdoing can result in real improvement. Fewer wrongdoers in city government means more honest employees; it means better city services; it means more efficient government. And punishing wrongdoing can have a strong ripple effect that deters others from going down the wrong path.”

“To him the stars seemed like so many musical notes affixed to the sky, just waiting for somebody to unfasten them. Someday the sky would be emptied, but by then the earth would be a constellation of musical scores”

“Having never discovered qualities in myself that might attract someone else, I could never believe that anyone felt attracted to me.”