I am Tessa Gray, ” she said in a low, clear voice. “And I believe in the importance of stories.

Simon’s love life was complicated, but there was a pang, just for a moment, for this woman talking graphic novels with him. Ah, well. Tessa Gray, foxy nerd, was probably dating someone already.

She shook her head. She was so pale under the diffuse lamp-light that she looked almost transparent, as if Simon could have looked right through her. The way, he supposed, he always had.

Poverty without a people's government looks like hopelessness, but to see poverty in organized communities is to see relief-in-progress.

I spy the eyes before me to be those of the celestial warrior the legends of men call Michael.

You can learn a lot from my mistakes more than my success.

Every year strips us of at least one vain expectation, and teaches us to reckon some solid good in its stead.

Out of the past come the standards for judging the present; standards in turn to be shaped by the practice of present-day dramatists into broader standards for the next generation.

Creativity is a voracious animal. It needs to be fed regularly. If you leave it untended for too long, you run the risk of starving your passion and diminishing your spirit.

Things today have become too big, too centralized, and too disassociated to be in relationship to each other.

Food is a coping mechanism; people are afraid of giving it up because then they'll feel confused and lost.

With Attachments, my goal was to write a really good romantic comedy. I wanted the reader to be smiling throughout.