The undoing is almost always more difficult than the doing.

As a kid books changed how I looked at the world and helped me understand things. Books still deepen me and open my heart.

All of God's creatures have names, every last one of them. Of that I am sure: of that I have no doubt at all.

It's a book [Bink & Gollie] about shortness and tallness, so I think it's appropriate to discuss the virtues of shortness.

I work full-time in a used bookstore. I get up. I drink a cup of coffee. I think, The last thing I want to do is write. Then I go to the computer and write.

It is important that you say what you mean to say. Time is too short. You must speak the words that matter.

Once there was a princess who was very beautiful. She shone bright as the stars on a moonless night. But what difference did it make that she was beautiful? None. No difference." Why did it make no difference?" asked Abilene. Because," said Pellegrina, "She was a princess who loved no one and cared nothing for love, even though there were many who loved her.