Many people are angry when they make a mistake, but very few people have the sense to be sorry.

Everything comes in useful once in a hundred years.

You have to believe it and you hate it. I don't have to and I think it's beautiful.

To fear is one thing. To let fear grab you by the tail and swing you around is another.

What a gift of grace to be able to take the chaos from within and from it create some semblance of order.

Miss Edmunds was one of his secrets. He was in love with her. Not the kind of silly stuff Ellie and Brenda giggled about on the telephone. This was too real and too deep to talk about, even to think about very much.

Kids often ask me if characters are real or made up - and I always tell them, 'I hope they're real but I made them up.'