She told a story of being so fixated on the beautiful features of a playmate that she collided with a tree and skinned her own face.

Children read their favorite books to death, she said. They are careless in their devotions. They rip the pages, scribble, and spill things on them. And they are demon book thieves.

She was a pixie, a fairy, full of imagination and in another world.

Reading is a lot like fine dining... Some readers prefer just the meat and potatoes

It’s a full-time job being homeless. It’s a full-time job being poor.

Sometimes it's the toughest moments that you learn the most about yourself, and the more you know yourself, the less you are willing to give away.

When you're touring, you're constantly in motion.

They don't produce anything. All they do is guide you through the labyrinth of the legal system that they created - and they keep changing it just in case you start to catch on.

dating is like campaigning: you don't reveal who you really are or what you're really up to until you get elected.

Of course I’m a feminist…if you’re not for the equal treatment of men and women, then you’re a fascist.

To work hard and have our supporters behind us and believing until the end, you run a little bit more

Our brains have just one scale, and we resize our experiences to fit.

Contentment is an undervalued grace.