We book people are always preaching about reading aloud to children, but unless you do, you can't realize how it enriches family life.

If you're so afraid of your imagination that you stifle it, how are you going to know God? How can you imagine heaven?

We all learn here by the honorable path of horrible mistakes.

There are few things, apparently, more helpful to a writer than having once been a weird little kid.

If you're a kid who is always on the outside hoping to be on the inside, you're watching a lot. You're trying to figure out how to become a normal person in a society that considers you weird.

Crazy people who are judged to be harmless are allowed an enormous amount of freedom ordinary people are denied.

We do have trouble dealing with death, but it's the one thing that is guaranteed we are all going to have to do, and we are going to have to face it many times before we die ourselves.