Then I went home to continue my life, which had changed a little, as lives do every day, inching by microspecks forward toward whatever surprises are coming next.

-a whole world can lie before someone, if love is there when one wakes.

Keep a green tree in your heart and perhaps the singing bird will come.

It is very risky. But each time a child opens a book, he pushes open the gate that separates him from Elsewhere.

The worst part of holding the memories is not the pain. It's the loneliness of it. Memories need to be shared.

The life where nothing was ever unexpected. Or inconvenient. Or unusual. The life without colour, pain or past.

The writer after all is only half the book, the other half is the reader.

Kids deserve the right to think that they can change the world.

We live in times that are in many ways ambiguous. Maybe that's why kids want precision in what they read - they don't like that moral ambiguity.

Take pride in your pain; you are stronger than those who have none

He wept, and it felt as if the tears were cleansing him, as if his body needed to empty itself.

The point is you are supposed to vote for the principle of the thing, not the itsy-bitsy detail about this percent and that percent.

Love is the only flame that set the soul on fire.

He finds himself entering a minefield of dietary choices." My Dark Experiences With Gluten

I live a great life. I can't complain. I'm healthy, my family's good and there's nothing I can really complain about.

You cannot compensate by sacrifice what you lose through disobedience

A research division develops marketing material for its deal makers. We have no policy position. If you have a policy position you can't possibly forecast.

I refuse to live a conventional life.

I smoked 20 cigarettes to get that sound because I'd read that John Lennon smoked a load of cigarettes on "Twist and Shout".

You can make your life anything you want it to be.

I think it’s fine for girls to ask boys out. I actually prefer it.