Okay, that so did me in. Mr. Rock being all emotional? Expressing his feelings?" p. 12

Imagine life is a game in which you are juggling five balls. The balls are called work, family, health, friends, and integrity. And you're keeping all of them in the air. But one day you finally come to understand that work is a rubber ball. If you drop it, it will bounce back. The other four balls...are made of glass. If you drop one of these, it will be irrevocably scuffed, nicked, perhaps even shattered.

Some poeple just don't have what it takes to appreciate a cookie.

When I write I pretend I'm telling a story to someone in the room and I don't want them to get up until I'm finished.

Actually, I'd already briefed him, early this morning. Since we were up at six. Since, at six, the nurse had been overcome with the overwhelming compulsion to take Fang's temperature right then.

There's no such thing as a kid who hates reading. There are kids who love reading, and kids who are reading the wrong books.

Home is wherever we all are together.