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

What I really want to do is to write a hilarious farce.

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

It is not enough to simply teach children to read; we have to give them something worth reading.

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

A dream without a plan is just a wish