Writing is one of the most assertive things a person can do.

...that in spite of living in a mansion an American is not above wearing a pair of secondhand pants, bought for fifty cents.

Fiction is the only way I know a human being can inhabit the mind of another human being.

Still, there are times I am bewildered by each mile I have traveled, each meal I have eaten, each person I have known, each room in which I have slept. As ordinary as it all appears, there are times when it is beyond my imagination.

My grandfather says that's what books are for," Ashoke said, using the opportunity to open the volume in his hands. "To travel without moving an inch.

And yet he had loved her. A Bookish girl heedless of her beauty, unconscious of her effect. She'd been prepared to live her life alone but from the moment he'd known her he'd needed her.

Pack a pillow and blanket and see as much of the world as you can.You will not regret it.