I think I know what it's like to have a family that the outside world sees as peculiar or lacking.

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.

The artist expresses only what he has within himself, not what he sees with his eyes

England, a happy land we know, Where follies naturally grow, Where without culture they arise, And tow'r above the common size.

When you succeed at keeping almost everyone in school, you must figure out ways to educate everyone you keep in school.

That loyal retainer of the Chase Manhattan Bank, the American president.

If I were to read about me purely on Twitter, I wouldn’t know what to make of me.

- Oh no, The Collective Farm policy was a terrible struggle... Ten million (he said holding up his hands). It was fearful. Four years it lasted. It was absolutely necessary.

This is a very sick man, this Obama.

The moment you surrender to love and allow it to lead you to exactly where your soul wants to go, you will have no difficulty.

Humans may be destroying their chances for decent survival. It won't kill everybody, but it would change the world dramatically.

What I feel for you seems less of earth and more of a cloudless heaven.