I am clumsy, a late and nervous driver, and despise all sports except a little gentle dancing or yoga.

The great thing about a short story is that it doesn't have to trawl through someone's whole life; it can come in glancingly from the side.

The world is always changing brightness and hotness and soundness, I never know how it's going to be the next minute.

Scared is what you're feeling. Brave is what you're doing.

I look back one more time. It's like a crater, a hole where something happened.

Ma's still nodding. "You're the one who matters, though. Just you." I shake my head till it's wobbling because there's no just me.

It’s called mind over matter. If we don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.” When a bit of me hurts, I always mind.

Books are the air I breathe, so I don't notice the seasons.

If I was made of cake I'd eat myself before somebody else could.

I remember manners, that's when people are scared to make other persons mad.

When I tell her what I’m thinking and she tells me what she’s thinking, our each ideas jumping into the other’s head, like coulouring blue crayon on top of yellow that makes green.

Grace sat down where the chair wasn't.

(A middle-class child's) parents didn't just give him money. They passed down habits, knowledge, and cognitive traits.

It is impossible to control creation.

Shall I not have intelligence with the earth? Am I not partly leaves and vegetable mould myself.

American diplomacy is easy on the brain but hell on the feet.

I didn't become an impressionist. As long as I can remember I always have been one.

Donald Trump's temperament and character is precisely what you would hate to see in your children, much less your president.

In our corrupted state, common weaknesses and defects contribute more towards the reconciling us to one another than all the precepts of the philosophers and divines.

Technology is both a tool for helping humans and for destroying them. This is the paradox of our times which we're compelled to face.

Luck is merely an illusion, trusted by the ignorant and chased by the foolish.