She felt like a fictional character who'd escaped the book in which her creator had carefully and kindly trapped her, taken a pair of scissors to her outline and leaped, free.

You make a life out of what you have, not what you're missing.

A girl expecting rescue never learns to save herself. Even with the means, she will find her courage wanting.

Memory is a cruel mistress with whom we all must learn to dance.

It's a terrible thing, isn't it, the way we throw people away?

Reluctance to begin is quick to befriend procrastination. . . .

In each man's heart there lies a hole. A dark abyss of need, the filling of which takes precedence over all else.

His words had tossed the book that was her life into the air and the pages had been blown into disarray, could never be put back together to tell the same story.

It was such a pleasure to sink one's hands into the warm earth, to feel at one's fingertips the possibilities of the new season.

There's a market for mysteries for adults. That feeling of opening a book and delving inside and not coming out until you've closed the book.

But history is a faithless teller whose cruel recourse to hindsight makes fools of its actors.

Vote for the man who promises least

There's a lot to be said for the fellow who doesn't say it himself.

Writing is an occupation in which you have to keep proving your talent to people who have none.

Only through suffering do we learn

It came so soon and so fast. It's just overwhelming. Every time I think about it, I just can't believe it.

No form of liberty is worth a darn [sic] which doesn't give us the right to do wrong now and then.

I've never really had a media edifice supporting me.

I'm still rough around the edges and need a lot of polishing.

The desire to explore thus marks out the mathematician. This is one of the forces making for the growth of mathematics. The mathematician enjoys what he already knows; he is eager for more knowledge.

Now I am past all comforts here, but prayer.