You gotta know someone cares about you, or you just give up.

Death is very mysterious to us. One moment someone is there with us, and the next moment they're not.

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.

That was the rule that you never mixed up troubles at home with life at school. When parents were poor or ignorant or mean, or even just didn't believe in having a TV set, it was up to their kids to protect them.

Trouble can always be borne when it is shared.

A great novel is a kind of conversion experience. We come away from it changed.

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