Everyone tells you it's all right to cry, but not enough people say it's all right if you don't want people to know.

In this book, not only is there no happy ending, there is no happy beginning and very few happy things in the middle.

I started making plans, thinking we would get that far.

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Love can smack you like a seagull, and pour all over your feet like junk mail.

I can't imagine why you would want to take your child to see what the career of a writer is like, because it mostly consists of sitting in a room typing, or going to the library and looking something up. Those are not exciting things to watch.

Stealing, of course, is a crime, and a very impolite thing to do. But like most impolite things, it is excusable under certain circumstances. Stealing is not excusable if, for instance, you are in a museum and you decide that a certain painting would look better in your house, and you simply grab the painting and take it there. But if you were very, very hungry, and you had no way of obtaining money, it would be excusable to grab the painting, take it to your house, and eat it.