Each book was a world unto itself, and in it I took refuge.

Life happened because I turned the pages.

All these are readers, and their gestures, their craft, the pleasure, the responsibility and the power they derive from reading, are common with mine. I am not alone.

Readers are bullied in schoolyards and in locker-rooms as much as in government offices and prisons.

I wanted to live among books.

You can only trust your emotions as you can lie to yourself with your brain but not your heart.

I am worried about our tendency to over invest in things and under invest in people.

Issues can only be resolved if each person accepts accountability in the problem.

Let a woman have her place, because as you provide foundation for her, she provides a foundation for you. And through that vulnerability comes strength.

Is devotion to others a cover for the hungers and the needs of the self, of which one is ashamed? I was always ashamed to take. So I gave. It was not virtue. It was a disguise.

There's nobody to guide through the process of becoming a man... to explain to them the meaning of manhood. And that's a recipe for disaster.

I think if you're against cruelty and you look at what happens to animals in slaughterhouses and on factory farms, you have to be completely against eating meat.

I tell this to my girls all the time: This journey we're on is a once - in - a - lifetime opportunity.

Oh God, I say not hear my prayers! I say: Blot with forgiving pen my sins away!

I make very basic country rustic furniture.