The main character and the most important character are not always the same person - you have to know the difference.

He also knew that rivals are best unmanned by being ignored.

No touching Baby Jesus.” “But we’re his parents!” proclaimed Mary Beth, who was being generous to include poor Joseph under this appellation. “Mary Beth,” Barb Wiggin said, “if you touch the Baby Jesus, I’m putting you in a cow costume.

Writing is hard. I learned how to work hard from wrestling, not English courses.

What is hardest to accept about the passage of time is that the people who once mattered the most to us wind up in parentheses.

People regard art too highly, and history not enough

so my grandmother was not without humanity. and if she wore cocktail dresses when she labored in the garden, they were cocktail dresses she no longer intended to wear to cocktail parties. even in her rose garden she did not want to appear underdressed. if the dresses got too dirty from gardening, she threw them out. when my mother suggested to her that she might have them cleaned, my grandmother said, "what? and have those people at the cleaners what i was doing in a dress to make it that dirty?" from my grandmother i learned that logic is relative.