Monotony and repetition are characteristic of many parts of life, but these do not become sources of conscious discomfort until novelty and entertainment are built up as positive experiences.

We are not what we know but what we are willing to learn.

The past empowers the present, and the sweeping footsteps leading to this present mark the pathways to the future.

The human species thinks in metaphors and learns through stories.

What would it be like to have not only color vision but culture vision, the ability to see the multiple worlds of others.

There are few things as toxic as a bad metaphor. You can't think without metaphors.

As you get up in the morning, as you make decisions, as you spend money, make friends, make commitments, you are creating a piece of art called your life.

When parents die, all of the partings of the past are reevoked with the realization that this time they will not return.

The timing of death, like the ending of a story, gives a changed meaning to what preceded it.

Worlds can be found by a child and an adult bending down and looking together under the grass stems or at the skittering crabs in a tidal pool.

Every loss recapitulates earlier losses, but every affirmation of identity echoes earlier moments of clarity.

The Sunday school trip: While us girls were alone, a nasty piece of work called Louise, aged about eleven, decided that it would be a ‘fun’ idea to hang someone over the cliff ... me!

Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime.

I try to not eat as much sugar, but it's so hard in our American diet to do that... It's hard to completely avoid.

I made a pact with myself a long time ago: Never watch anything stupider than you. It's helped me a lot.

The more I read my Bible the more I veered away from the Jehovah's Witnesses.

Usually people who do bad things make good writers.I did a lot of bad things, which is why my novels are interesting.

Oh, how with more than dreams the soul is torn, ere sleep comes down to soothe the weary eyes.

We live in a world bathed in 5,000 times more energy than we consume as a species in the year, in the form of solar energy.

There ain't no future in the past.

A few Cobras in your home will soon clear it of Rats and Mice. Of course, you will still have the Cobras.