Nothing to do with nature, unless you count human nature.

But kids don't stay with you if you do it right. It's the one job where, the better you are, the more surely you won't be needed in the long run.

I believe with all my heart in delivering on my contract with my readers. They've got plenty of other things to do, so I had better give them a reason to turn every one of these 550 pages. This is my promise: I solemnly swear I'll make you laugh out loud at least once, cry a little in private, and burn whatever you left on the stove.

If you never stepped on anybody's toes, you never been for a walk.

I'm not pretending to be ingenuous; I know what I'm doing.

Tall and straight I may appear, but I will always be Ada inside. A crooked little person trying to tell the truth. The power is in the balance: we are our injuries, as much as we are our successes

the conspicuous consumption of limited resources has yet to be accepted widely as a spiritual error, or even bad manners