Just because she's dead it doesn't mean I stopped loving her or that she stopped loving me. It's just her body that left. The love didn't. —Jenna Richards

A good teacher is one who helps you become who you feel yourself to be. A good teacher is also one who says something that you won't understand until 10 years later.

The failure of modern living is the failure of the imagination...Literature is the royal road that enables us to enter the realm of the imagination.

Often, the human animal dresses terror in rage, and expresses both in a way unlike either.

Silence was not the absence of sound but was itself a sound that could be loud or soft, soothing or disturbing, complex or simple.

We remember with our emotions. The things that were important in our emotional life, that's what we remember.

Goodness was not a trait you acquired; it was a value you practiced when you were on the verge of doing evil.