Just because the person who criticizes you is an idiot doesn't make him wrong.

Children love to be alone because alone is where they know themselves, and where they dream.

The problem with death is absence

The God worth worshipping is the one who pays us the compliment of self - regulation, and we might return it by minding our own business.

A library should be like a pair of open arms.

Slum kids die slowly, their lives eroded at so languid a pace that even they would have trouble tracing the disintegration. To the children of war death explodes like a car bomb.

If you need three adjectives to describe something, then you've probably chosen the wrong something.

The only reason I wanted 'Making Toast' as the title is that it is a simple gesture of moving on. Every morning there's the bread and you make the toast and you start the day.

Friends are lights in winter; the older the friend, the brighter the light.

The belief in potential human virtue underlies the whole idea of the Bill of Rights; the document is a very tough guardian of that belief.

Only by moving in the direction you least trust can you be saved

And it feels strange, almost sad, to walk through ther empty halls. Each step I take sounds so lonely.

A smile opened, thin as a paper cut, in the bottom of Flowers's face.

It's so hard to find the time. I only have one kid and it's hard with one kid. I can't imagine people who have more than that.

I work too hard and don't play enough.

Jealousy is nothing more than a fear of abandonment

When you're a little kid, your heart is open and tender and a harsh word can go straight in and become part of your life.

What are Fred and I? Next door neighbors?

Time-wasting activities are the dessert. Oftentimes discoveries are made through the back door.

Fashion: a barricade behind which men hide their nothingness.

Don't underestimate your kids. Don't be condescending, because they're children but they're not stupid.