I was behaving, just like I promised, but fate intervened.

Our fundamental task as human beings is to seek out connections-to exercise our imaginations.

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

Sometimes you need to give people something that's for them, not just something that makes you feel good giving it.

Hope ... is not a feeling; it is something you do.

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.

I can't believe there will ever be a time when the book is truly obsolete. It is the perfect technology and feeds the soul.