A lot of my upbringing was about denying or fretting or evading.

That's what books are for... to travel without moving an inch.

Fiction is the only way I know a human being can inhabit the mind of another human being.

Pack a pillow and blanket and see as much of the world as you can.You will not regret it.

I am drawn to any story that makes me want to read from one sentence to the next. I have no other criterion.

A bicultural upbringing is a rich but imperfect thing

Pet names are a persistant remnant of childhood, a reminder that life is not always so serious, so formal, so complicated. They are a reminder, too, that one is not all things to all people.

Somehow, bad news, however ridden with static, however filled with echoes, always manages to be conveyed.

The first sentence of a book is a handshake, perhaps an embrace.

That the last two letters in her name were the first two in his, a silly thing he never mentioned to her but caused him to believe that they were bound together.

It didn't matter that I wore clothes from Sears; I was still different. I looked different. My name was different. I wanted to pull away from the things that marked my parents as being different.

To be beyond yourself is the gate to wisdom.

If you want to double your productively, shorten the timeline to by 50%.

All the pleasure of sin cannot be compared to the satisfaction with sweetness of life in the spirit.

William is the most skilled protector that I have ever seen. He is the best." Determination began to swell inside of me. "Then I will have to be better." Margo Westly

Dreamers have sharp ears like spear and sharp eyes like an eagle.

If you don't have a job, you don't have a fear of losing it. You fear having to get one.

If the United States wants to prevent other countries from acquiring the bomb, it must be prepared to reduce and eventually end its own reliance on nuclear weapons.

The thought of eternity consoles for the shortness of life.

America is in a runaway-train position and dragging all the world with it. It's grotesquely mentally ill.

Fine clothes are good only as they supply the want of other means of procuring respect.