A memoir is always the most authentic telling of a situation, but a novel gets to different places.

The great thing about a short story is that it doesn't have to trawl through someone's whole life; it can come in glancingly from the side.

The world is always changing brightness and hotness and soundness, I never know how it's going to be the next minute.

Scared is what you're feeling. Brave is what you're doing.

I look back one more time. It's like a crater, a hole where something happened.

Ma's still nodding. "You're the one who matters, though. Just you." I shake my head till it's wobbling because there's no just me.

It’s called mind over matter. If we don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.” When a bit of me hurts, I always mind.

Books are the air I breathe, so I don't notice the seasons.

If I was made of cake I'd eat myself before somebody else could.

I remember manners, that's when people are scared to make other persons mad.

When I tell her what I’m thinking and she tells me what she’s thinking, our each ideas jumping into the other’s head, like coulouring blue crayon on top of yellow that makes green.

Serve one another with brotherly love.

There is something magical about losing yourself in a world that doesn't exist.

Any good teacher knows how important it is to connect with students and understand our culture.

Inner seeing has nothing to do with physical vision; it's the perception of life directly.

Share your strengths, not your weaknesses.

I am part of a system which encourages people to buy things and do things which are not to their best interest.

If your fund doesn't last for the long term, how can you invest for the long term?

Some times your best effort just isn't good enough.

If I am at a party, I want to be at the party. Too many photographers use the camera to avoid participating in things. They become professional observers.

War involves in its progress such a train of unforeseen circumstances that no human wisdom can calculate the end; it has but one thing certain, and that is to increase taxes.