And what is an angel but a ghost in drag?

For the book unwritten is the book burned.

And the rain was brain colored and the thunder sounded like something remembering something.

Once we got out of Jefferson Park, we rolled down the one window that worked so the world would know we had good taste in music.

She felt the lurch of a head rush. The boy who had not paid attention to her

From politics to parenting, Christians have something to say.

I've always shied away from computers, the Internet and all that. I'm a bit more traditional, really - pick up a newspaper, pick up a phone.

Following a code of silence, you're never gonna lose the anger.

And for at least that moment, I wouldn't have traded the hundreds of books I've read for the few I know almost by heart.

A law against hating Jews is usually the beginning of the end for the Jews.

But magic is really only the utilization of the entire spectrum of the senses.

History is the transformation of tumultuous conquerors into silent footnotes.

I think the boarding schools are like miniature versions of "Lord of the Flies."