Best riddles

If will follow you for 1000 miles but not miss home. It desires neither food nor flowers. It fears not water, fire, knives, nor soldiers. But it disappears when the sun sets behind the western mountains. Who Am I?

A girl is sitting in a house at night that has no lights on at all. There is no lamp, no candle, nothing. Yet she is reading. How?

What do you get when you drop a pumpkin?

A man was found dead with a cassette recorder in one hand and a gun in the other. When the police came in, they immediately pressed the play button on the cassette. He said "I have nothing else to live for. I can't go on," then the sound of a gunshot. After listening to the cassette tape, the police knew that it was not a suicide, but a homicide. How did they know?

This very thing you were born with pleases us all. It's even capable of making men fall, while only experienced by few it's treasured by all.

A mirror for the famous, but informative to all. I'll show you the world, but it may be a bit small. What am I?

What bird can write?

What kind of dog has a bark but no bite?

What body part is pronounced as one letter but written with three, only two different letters are used?

A girl was ten on her last birthday, and will be twelve on her next birthday. How is this possible?