The difference between a house and a home is like the difference between a man and a woman-- it might be embarrassing to explain, but it would be very unusual to get them confused.

All his life, Klaus had believed that if you read enough books, you could solve any problem, but now he wasn't so sure.

In America now there is this phenomenon called helicopter parenting, where you're hovering over your child for the whole time. Parents there view their job as being to make sure their kid never has a moment of unhappiness. Of course, as a parent myself, I can understand the urge, but I don't know whether it would be healthy or possible.

It is very unnerving to be proven wrong, particularly when you are really right and the person who is really wrong is proving you wrong and proving himself, wrongly, right.

Beef. Yes. Roast beef. It's the Swedish term for beef that is roasted.

What do your parents know, about surviving?

There are almost as many kinds of libraries as there are kinds of readers.