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

That is surely the truth, at least for now. But perhaps you have not noticed: the truth is forever changing.

If you have no intention of loving or being loved, the whole journey is pointless.

Reading should not be presented to children as a chore or duty. It should be offered to them as a precious gift.

Allow me to congratulate you on your very astute powers of observation.

[Our first dinner with Alison McGhee] was at Figlio's [in Minneapolis]. I know exactly what I had, because it was so good: their three-cheese ravioli. But I can't remember what I said to Alison that night that made her laugh so hard. But she got me right away and I got her right away.

Magic is always impossible.... It begins with the impossible and ends with the impossible and is impossible in between. That is why it's magic.