Books make me feel safe. Books make me feel normal.

Initially, he worried that he might be going crazy. But then he decided if you felt you were crazy you weren't really crazy because he had heard somewhere that crazy people didn't know they were insane.

Do what you can as you can. Trouble, problems, will come no matter what you do , and you must respond as they come.

This is going to be murder," Fransic whispered to Mr. Trimes. "Pure murder." "I'm glad to see your confidence returning, Mr. Tucket. Just a few minutes ago you were ready to give up. Now you're talking about killing him." "I meant it the other way." "Oh.

I can't rightly say where deciding to write about the American Revolution came from; I had bits and pieces of information about the war and about the country at that time that I'd collected over the years and, of course, I'm comfortable in the woods, so, finally, it just all feel into place.

Things seemed to go back and forth between reality and imagination--except that it was all reality.

And the last thought he had that morning as he closed his eyes was: I hope the tornado hit the moose.