If we had paid attention, we would have understood there are some things in this world you cannot outrun.

Any institution becomes a community - whether it's a high school or a boarding school or a publishing company or a small town where everybody knows certain things about people.

When I read Jerome D. Salinger's "The Catcher in the Rye" that was the first time I felt my mind blow open. I thought that book was speaking to me. I was 12 or 13 when I read that. I read everything on my mother's bookshelves.

Are people drawn to each other because of the stories they carry inside?

Margaret thought of all she knew for certain, that day would always follow night that love was never wasted nor was it lost.

We had to survive to remember. Otherwise everything we were would disappear. Those people we loved would fade as though we'd never loved them, as if they'd never walked and talked and burned, forgetting them was the real evil. That was the hole of darkness.

Do what you want, do what you will, do what you have to, do what you think you cannot.