Anytime you make a person into something other than himself, you make a monster.

Children love to be alone because alone is where they know themselves, and where they dream.

The problem with death is absence

The God worth worshipping is the one who pays us the compliment of self - regulation, and we might return it by minding our own business.

A library should be like a pair of open arms.

Slum kids die slowly, their lives eroded at so languid a pace that even they would have trouble tracing the disintegration. To the children of war death explodes like a car bomb.

If you need three adjectives to describe something, then you've probably chosen the wrong something.

The only reason I wanted 'Making Toast' as the title is that it is a simple gesture of moving on. Every morning there's the bread and you make the toast and you start the day.

Friends are lights in winter; the older the friend, the brighter the light.

The belief in potential human virtue underlies the whole idea of the Bill of Rights; the document is a very tough guardian of that belief.

Only by moving in the direction you least trust can you be saved

Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.

The whole business of reading English Literature in two years, to know it in any reputable sense of the word - let alone your learning to write English - is, in short, impossible.

The market economy succeeds not because some people's interests are suppressed and other people are kept out of the market, but because people gain individual advantage from it.

I was asking Charlie the most important questions, and you heard the answers.

Euthanasia is the kindest gift to a dog or cat unwanted and unloved.

Humans have a strong desire to be part of a group. That desire makes us susceptible to fads, fashions, and idea contagions.

Gardens are the result of a collaboration between art and nature.

Nobody really wants to hear about anybody else's injuries. Or how your back feels. Whose back doesn't hurt?

You can't blend in when you were born to stand out.