That was interesting, riding in the trunk," Milo said, "but I wouldn't want to do it again.

Dare we linger, dare we skate? Dare we laugh or celebrate, knowing we may strain the ice? Preserve the ice at any price?

Evil was coming. I wondered whose face it would be wearing.

here in the summer desert, winter found my blood

less real than such threats as a man with a gun, a woman with a knife, or a U.S. Senator with an idea.

Change isn't easy... changing the way you live means changing what you believe about life. That's hard... When we make our own misery, we sometimes cling to it even when we want so bad to change because the misery is something we know. The misery is comfortable.

Only the human spirit can act with volition and consciously change itself; it is the only thing in all creation that is not entirely at the mercy of forces outside itself.