It was impossible not to admire him, not to want to do something to contain that kind of beauty- drink him, ingest him, sneak into his shirt and hide for the rest of one's natural life.

She read books quickly and compulsively, paperback after paperback, as if she might drift away without the anchor of the printed page.

I feel like I don't have all the ingredients a person is supposed to have.

It is books that are a key to the wide world; if you can't do anything else, read all that you can.

It is a rule of nature that taking a day off on the farm sets a person back at least a week.

We all need people to tell us that we were the ones who had been deeply wronged.

Our mission in life is not to discover our fate as we go along, or even to procreate, but rather to fill up the endless gray void that is time.

My god has always been a laissez-faire deity, giving you the initial goods and sending you on to make your way.

It's all a big old chain. There isn't one unconnected link.

Life on earth, filled with uncertainty and change, seemed far more difficult than what lay beyond the grave.

This was life, I supposed, running and running and running, and realizing along the way that the phantom was getting closer.

My mother was always in the center of her own agitation, seeming as though, far away, part of her was being chased along a dirt road by a swarm of bees.

When deciding whether or not to go for your dream, remember that you don't need a bigger net, you just need bigger wings.

There are times when parenthood seems nothing more than feeding the hand that bites you.

Stalkers lips curled into a sneer. "You won't make a move without him, huh? That's embarrassing." "No," I said softly. "It just hurts because you wish it was you.

Men use a new lesson or experience later on as a ploughshare or perhaps also as a weapon; women at once make it into an ornament.

Time-awareness does indeed watermark my books and my life.

If you stay up, you get the songs that everyone else misses because they're asleep.

But, like ivy, we grow where there is room for us.

I've introduced legislation to say, "For right now, let's stop it," from about 34 countries.

Maturity is a high price to pay for growing up.