Prison walls are meant not only to keep convicts in, but to keep the would-be investigator out.

Things on the whole are faster in America; people don't stand for election, they run for office. If a person says he's sick, it doesn't mean regurgitating, it means ill. Mad means angry, not insane. Don't ask for the left-luggage; it's called a checkroom.

Enemies are, to me, as important as friends in my life, and when they die I mourn their passing.

lifelong enemies are, I think, as hard to make and as important to one's well-being as lifelong friends.

O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory? Where, indeed. Many a badly stung survivor, faced with the aftermath of some relative's funeral, has ruefully concluded that the victory has been won hands down by a funeral establishment - in disastrously unequal battle.

Now there is a society where the funeral industry got completely out of control.

A thirteen-year-old is a kaleidoscope of different personalities, if not in most ways a mere figment of her own imagination. At that age, what and who you are depends largely on what book you happen to be reading at the moment.