No doubt the truth is hard to come by for those who do not like the sound of it - dreams and illusions are so much more pleasant.

It's a wholly illogical but nonetheless powerful belief that things will change for the better in a new place

As God achieved with devotion, success is achieved with dedication.

Only as we mature does affection begin to depend on achievement.

The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with the joy of living are goodness, beauty, and truth.

Simplifying to the extreme, I define postmodern as incredulity toward metanarratives.

When you see something, you are supposed to tell the energy what year it is and that they don't belong there.

We do have trouble dealing with death, but it's the one thing that is guaranteed we are all going to have to do, and we are going to have to face it many times before we die ourselves.

Those who refuse the long drudgery of thought, and think with the heart rather than the head, are ever the most fiercely dogmatic in tone.

I was reading all these male writers who were doing wild and wonderful things. It gave me permission to experiment.

Only library books speak with such wordless eloquence of the power good stories hold over us.