Persephone had it right.If you must go, might as welltake all of spring with you—

And yet, it is amazing that poetry often touches the heart even though it may not try to teach us anything.

When a storm of devastation approaches you from all directions it readily knows your unlimited potential of fighting back.

It was wrong to be too pragmatic, to judge people solely by results; it was more humane to judge by intentions.

But Ship Who Sang remains my favorite story. I really rocked folks with that and still cannot read it aloud myself without weeping at the end

I talked to my little brother, Jeb - I haven't told this to many people. But he's the governor of - I shouldn't call him my little brother - my brother, Jeb, the great Governor of Texas.

Thy money, thy office, thy reputation are nothing; put away these phantom clothings, and stand like an athlete stripped for the battle.

I really never even seriously considered a book but a few years ago someone approached me out of the blue and I said I would think about it.

The true test of courage is to be afraid and to go ahead and do it anyway - to be scared, is to have your knees knocking, but to walk on in there anyway.

There are so few women in general who aren't completely threatened and confused by other women's success. It's very disappointing.

We have as Americans a right to be here, and we also have a responsibility to build bridges of reconciliation with the families of those who died on 11 September.