During a race where everyone holds their own truth, the finish line is a surprise.

Surprise keeps the reader awake. The only alternative is to continue saying what the reader is expecting. What fun is that?

I don't think it should be much of a surprise with the type of year we've had.

It is an endless procession of surprises. The expected rarely occurs and never in the expected manner.

That doesn't surprise us at all. We're still the same Pistons and we still go out and play that same Pistons D. That wasn't going to change.

Good theater is not what is expected, but what surprises.

The best surprise is no surprise.

He has just been awesome. It's no surprise to us.

When it's time to let someone go, do it right. No surprises. No humiliation.

I was 15, not 14, when I was inside there [Auschwitz], 15, and for me both were actually a surprise.