Everybody gets scared sometimes, May Belle. You don't have to be ashamed.

We can read the paper or current magazines and learn about national and world events, think about controversial subjects, learn how to disagree respectfully, and how, finally, to act on our convictions. We can read for pure delight, and if we do this as a family or classroom or other group we can build wonderful memories.

You think it's so great to die and make everyone cry and carry on. Well it ain't.

the reason God made February short a few days was because he knew that by the time people came to the end of it they would die if they had to stand one more blasted day.

Reading can be a road to freedom or a key to a secret garden, which, if tended, will transform all of life.

My writing comes from ideas that make a sound in my heart.

All of us can think of a book... that we hope none of our children or any other children have taken off the shelf. But if I have the right to remove that book from the shelf - that work I abhor - then you also have exactly the same right and so does everyone else. And then we have no books left on the shelf for any of us.