Maybe everything really does just have an expiration date--one that you can't see until she tells you she's leaving, and then she's gone.

Buying a book is not about obtaining a possession, but about securing a portal.

Every small town that I had ever been to had had a caboose.

The closer and more completely you can come to explaining what a work of art means, the less like art it seems.

People like to complain about the state of contemporary literature, but I can only assume they don't read it very widely.

Do the children who prefer books set in the real, ordinary, workaday world ever read as obsessively as those who would much rather be transported into other worlds entirely?

But there is so much more to do for the city we love... a Dallas with roads as strong as our businesses, parks as beautiful as our children, a downtown as tall as our imagination.