By investing others with the power to dictate who you are, you rob yourself of an opportunity to truly grow.

Write to exhaustion so that you can no longer manage to avoid writing the truth.

Don't be a fool, there is no such thing as just a girl.

Anthony Doerr again takes language beyond mortal limits.

The stories in Dawn Raffel's astonishing Further Adventures in the Restless Universe as as sharp and bright as stars.

In Quiet Dell, Phillips mesmerizingly spins together fact and fiction, vividly imagining the circumstances leading to their deaths, and sets a young female reporter on the case to solve it.

Let Your Inhibitions Run Free

Y'know, if those pews reclined, and the priests gave the Raiders scores I'd go to church every Sunday.

When you have really solid biology and medical science at the core of an issue, it makes it much easier to identify what potential solutions may be.

The greatest gift is the ability to forget - to forget the bad things and focus on the good.

I needed to become something besides the star everybody had built me up to be.

There's no such thing as a simple cache bug.

The centipede has rhythm and flow in its hundred legs precisely because it does not have to think about it. Consider this the next time you move the instruments of your art.

This was a very typical time. I was single. All you needed was a cup of tea, a light, and your stereo, you know, and that's what I had.

I don't like to comment on a specific local issue because there are plenty of people already working on the problem who know a lot more about it than I do.

History is the study of the world's crime