The desert is a place of bones, where the innards are turned out, to desiccate into dust.

Never look directly at the sun. Instead, look at the sunflower.

The pyramid shape is said to hold many secrets and amazing properties. One of them is a sense of wonder.

Whenever you read a good book, somewhere in the world a door opens to allow in more light.

A woman is human. She is not better, wiser, stronger, more intelligent, more creative, or more responsible than a man. Likewise, she is never less. Equality is a given. A woman is human.

The nutcracker sits under the holiday tree, a guardian of childhood stories. Feed him walnuts and he will crack open a tale.

Sunrise paints the sky with pinks and the sunset with peaches. Cool to warm. So is the progression from childhood to old age.

Was it you or I who stumbled first? It does not matter. The one of us who finds the strength to get up first, must help the other.

Patience is not a virtue. It is an achievement.

A boomerang returns back to the person who throws it. But first, while moving in a circle, it hits its target. So does gossip.

Each letter of the alphabet is a steadfast loyal soldier in a great army of words, sentences, paragraphs, and stories. One letter falls, and the entire language falters.

When is it too right but too wrong to be right?

I told you once I would never let you fall, Aesa ... And you're falling. You just don't se

You know you're in a good place when you no longer are interested in looking back. You prefer to enjoy the journey.

I think it's difficult to be honest about certain aspects of my work without acknowledging that I have experienced or felt or questioned certain of the themes in the books.

All through organized history, if you wanted prosperity you had to have cities. Cities are places that attract new people with new ideas.

I like to go to openings when I'm in it, or friends are in it.

A man should stop his ears against paralyzing terror and run the race that is set before him with a single mind.

I want to see everything. I guess the positive version of not seeing or not knowing would be preservation of fantasy.

This is different than every other Ebola situation we've ever had. It's spreading widely, throughout entire countries, through multiple countries, in cities and very fast.

In a town of 3,000 people there is no privacy. Everybody knows what everybody is doing.