Literature is a textually transmitted disease, normally contracted in childhood.

The thing I want to know is, if you tell your brain not to do stuff... and it keeps doing it anyway, does that mean your mind has a mind of its own? And if it does, then who's in charge here, anyway?

Fiction cannot recite the numbing numbers, but it can be that witness, that memory. A storyteller can attempt to tell the human tale, can make a galaxy out of the chaos, can point to the fact that some people survived even as most people died. And can remind us that the swallows still sing around the smokestacks.

How often is the passing of one storm only a prelude to another.

Language helps develp life as surely as it reflects life. It is a most important part of our human condition.

Take a step, breathe in the world, give it out again in story, poem, song, art.

Childrens books change lives. Stories pour into the hearts of children and help make them what they become.