When you're living through them, events are nothing more than stuff that happens. You're not thinking about significance. Significance only comes when you look back at your life.

the awareness of time passing and where you go and what happens in life in 20 years.

Life is short and there will always be dirty dishes, so let's dance.

Words played an important part in my growing up. Not only the written word... but words that flew through the air: jokes, riddles, puns.

Humor is the most precious gift I can give to my reader, a reminder that the world is not such a terribly serious place. There is more than video games and drugs and nuclear threats; there is laughter, and there is hope.

Harold (about max): he looks kinda like a football couch
Chester (sarcastically): Yay team rah rah. if he says anything athletic i'll scream
max: want to jog?
(chester screams).