The poor are crazy, the rich just eccentric. - James Shin Hoo

I try to say one thing with my work: A book is a wonderful place to be. A book is a package, a gift package, a surprise package-and within the wrappings is a whole new world and beyond.

The sun sets in the west (just about everyone knows that), but Sunset Towers faced east. Strange!

Smiling without good reason is demeaning.

Your trouble comes from years of wearing the wrong kind of shoes. - Jake Wexler

I remember the will said, 'May God thy gold refine.' That must be from the Bible." "Shakespeare," Turtle said. All quotations were either from the Bible or Shakespeare.

Grace said,"Dr. Wexler was called away on an emergency operation." "An emergency Packers game in Green Bay," Turtle confided to Flora Baumbach.

I remember the will said, 'May God thy gold refine.' That must be from the Bible.""Shakespeare, " Turtle said. All quotations were either from the Bible or Shakespeare.

Grace sat down where the chair wasn't.

Life, too, is senseless unless you know who you are, what you want, and which way the wind blows.

We must not allow the clock and the calendar to blind us to the fact that each moment of life is a miracle and mystery.

Maybe next season we can race.

Are you accusing me of reading? ~ Ridley

Sure, give me an adventure and I'll ride it.

E.B. White's essays are the best things I've read about Maine - especially the one in which he's not sure if he can go out sailing any more in his sloop.

I find that men are far more vain than women.

Wisdom is like the rain. Its source is limitless, but it comes down according to the season.

Don't be afraid to say what you don't know, and speak for what you do know. Say, "I can't speak for all Latinas, but I can speak for me and tell you very, very honestly."

Make up your mind to act decidedly and take the consequences. No good is ever done in this world by hesitation.

Adventure is putting one's ignorance into motion.