Books fall open, you fall in. When you climb out again, you're a bit larger than you used to be.

I take responsibility only for the future, not the past. The past can't hurt you the way the future can.

Have you ever noticed when you look in a mirror, unless youre really depressed or something, the person in the mirror generally looks a little more competent, a little more curious, a little more intelligent than you actually feel yourself to be? They often look more interesting and more soulful.

Not an ugly color, Nanny thought. Just not a human color.

I learned failure early and mastered it.

Yet who can say how our souls have been stamped by witnessing such a cruel drama? All souls are hostages to their human envelopes, but souls must decay and suffer at such indignity, don't you agree?

Growth and change were viewed as reactions to conditions met