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

You are down there alone, the stars seemed to say to him. And we are up here, in our constellations, together.

They were always on the move.But in truth said bull we are all going nowhere

I think of myself as an enormously lucky person.

The words, "I have a dog named Winn-Dixie," popped into my head in the voice of a small girl with a southern accent. I'd been writing long enough at that point to know not to ignore that kind of red flag. The next day, I put aside what I'd been working on, started with that one sentence, and followed it all the way to the end.

I'm continually astonished with myself how different people bring out things in me that I never knew I had inside me. Each new friendship can make you a new person, because it opens up new doors inside of you.

There's a Buddhist precept that the only thing you deserve is the chance to do the work, and I've been given the chance to do the work.