What happens in a certain place can stain your feelings for that location, just as ink can stain a white sheet.

Any playlist without Prince is no friend of mine.

For some stories, it's easy. The moral of 'The Three Bears,' for instance, is "Never break into someone else's house.' The moral of 'Snow White' is 'Never eat apples.' The moral of World War I is 'Never assassinate Archduke Ferdinand.

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.

I don't know if you've ever noticed this, but first impressions are often entirely wrong.

It is often said that reading is a gift, but to my mind that is an insufficient description, for the size of the gift of reading is so vast that it is difficult to see what is outside its wrapping.

We are a nation of children letting horrible things happen, and flunking Calc.