Anything we love can be saved.

It is healthier, in any case, to write for the adults one's children will become than for the children one's 'mature' critics often are.

Every small positive change we make in ourselves repays us in confidence in the future.

The hardest part is when you're in danger yourself. You have to face what could happen and might be likely to happen to you. It's not just that you're there standing next to somebody that something bad is likely to happen to. That is a true moment of reckoning with who you really are.

I'm entirely interested in people, and also other creatures and beings, but especially in people, and I tend to read them by emotional field more than anything. So I have a special interest in what they're thinking and who they are and who's hiding behind those eyes and how did he get there, and what's the story, really?

Eventually I knew what hair wanted; it wanted to be itself ... to be left alone by anyone, including me, who did not love it as it was.

In my opinion and experience, imperialists of all nations and races will tell us anything to keep us fighting. For them.