Sexy means loving someone you donot know.

That's what books are for... to travel without moving an inch.

Fiction is the only way I know a human being can inhabit the mind of another human being.

Pack a pillow and blanket and see as much of the world as you can.You will not regret it.

I am drawn to any story that makes me want to read from one sentence to the next. I have no other criterion.

A bicultural upbringing is a rich but imperfect thing

Pet names are a persistant remnant of childhood, a reminder that life is not always so serious, so formal, so complicated. They are a reminder, too, that one is not all things to all people.

Somehow, bad news, however ridden with static, however filled with echoes, always manages to be conveyed.

The first sentence of a book is a handshake, perhaps an embrace.

That the last two letters in her name were the first two in his, a silly thing he never mentioned to her but caused him to believe that they were bound together.

It didn't matter that I wore clothes from Sears; I was still different. I looked different. My name was different. I wanted to pull away from the things that marked my parents as being different.

I could now see her the way she actually is and not in the distorted way my mind presented her to me when I was trying to find a reason to reject her and move on

Meditation is the vitamin for your mind.

I am grateful for what I am and have. My thanksgiving is perpetual.

In my imagination yes, I remember, when I was six years old, I was conducting all this concert in my house. But now it's real.

Youth is a circumstance you can't do anything about. The trick is to grow up without getting old.

Mathematics is the key and door to the sciences.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is the only musician who had as much knowledge asgenius, and as much genius as knowledge.

All present-day governments are fanatically committed to an easy money policy.

I am always the better for open-air breathing, and was certainly meant for the wandering life of the Indian.

We are ashamed of our thoughts and often see them brought forth by others.