When the silence and the aloneness press down and around me, crushing me, carving through me like ice, I need to speak aloud sometimes, if only for proof of life.

I had no idea how to respond, and opted for a smile, which serves me well on most occasions (not if it's something to do with death or illness, though -- I know that now.)

My eye was drawn to a bright green hue, the same shade as a poisonous Amazonian frog, the tiny, delightfully deadly ones.

You can't have too much dog in a book.

I took one of my hands in the other, tried to imagine what it would feel like if it was another person's hand holding mine. There have been times where I felt that I might die of loneliness.

In the end, what matters is this: I survived.

in principle and reality, libraries are life-enhancing palaces of wonder

Lord our time on earth is in your hands.Lord determine and guide our steps.

It (the sun) didn't really care how I felt, it was going to rise and set regardless of whether I noticed it, and if I was going to enjoy it, that was up to me.

When in doubt go the library

How much obesity has to be created in a single decade for people to realize that diet has to be responsible for it?

Very little changed fundamentally, except that the proud German soldier had turned into a defeated bundle of misery and the great German army had disintegrated.

Life is the flash in black heavens.

Expecting rain, the profile of a day Wears its soul like a hat.

A job is not just a job. It’s who you are.

If you hit a wrong note, it's the next note that you play that determines if it's good or bad.

But, o, photography! as no art is,Faithful and disappointing! That recordsDull days as dull, and hold-it smiles as frauds,And will not censor blemishes,Like washing-lines, and Hall's-Distemper boards