Read for fun, read for information, read in order to understand yourself and other people with quite different ideas. Learn about the world beyond your door. Learn to be compassionate and grow in wisdom. Books can help us in all these ways.

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

Nothing smelled so good or danced so well as a birch fire.

As I look back on what I have written, I can see that the very persons who have taken away my time are those who have given me something to say.

It was up to him to pay back to the world in beauty and caring what Leslie had loaned him in vision and strength.

Punch after punch after punch. February is a mean bully. Nothing could be worse - except August.

I love revision. Where else can spilled milk be turned into ice cream?