It is only through disruptions and confusion that we grow, jarred out of ourselves by the collision of someone else's private world with our own.

I'm sure all that you've heard is just the usual gossip, invented to injure feelings rather than illuminate truth.

If food is poetry, is not poetry also food?

I learned you don't discover the evidence of any cause in its result.

Anyone who teaches knows that you don't really experience a text until you've taught it, in loving detail, with an intelligent and responsive class.

My first love was reading, which inspired me to write.

Death is just the last scene of the last act.