The more I do bookstores, the more people come up to me from church groups. I spoke at Pittsburg State College and had 2 or 3 ministers and book groups from a couple of churches.

I would have stayed forever within the garden of Re-mose's childhood, but time is a mother's enemy.

Egypt loved the lotus becuase it never dies. It is the same for people who are loved. Thus can something as insignificant as a name-two syllables, one high, one sweet- summon up the innumerable smiles, tears, sighs and dreams of a human life.

I never wanted Mary Poppins to be my nanny. I wanted to be her when I grew up.

It was one of those perfect fall days when the air is cool enough to wake you up but the sun is also kissing your face.

There's nothing quite like a real . . . train conductor to add color to a quotidian commute

The story it told was unremarkable: a tale of love found and lost- the oldest story in the world. The only story.