Anna gave her that disjointed look with which so many people regarded Hannah, as if they has fallen too many words behind to ever catch up.

Am I higher or lower than she? It was always the vital question for Anna: who was superior, and how she could position herself so that she would be perceived as superior?

I'm rarely rude except accidentally, and that doesn't really count...

I'm sometimes scared that I'm forgetting what my dad was like.

Train hard while others don't, so you can win while your opponents wont.

This was a great year for preventive worrying. Seldom in recent history have so many people worried about so many things that didn't happen in the end.

Like a Passover Poet gliding from house to house and from trembling soul to trembling soul the wind scribbled sonnets of first time love and weeping haikus of last hours on earth.

I absolutely think that it's possible for us to find common ground.

Thomas Aquinas states parenthetically, as something entirely obvious, that men are more rational than women. For my part, I see no evidence of this.

The hardest-working people don't work hard because they're disciplined. They work hard because working on an exciting problem is fun.

Oh God, here's my Bible, Here's my money. Here's me. Use me, God.

since each child reads only about six hundred books in the course of childhood, each book should nourish them in some way - with new ideas, insight, humor, or vocabulary.

Every book is a kind of experiment in doing something that feels impossible.