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?

The first book we fall in love with shapes us every bit as much as the first person we fall in love with.

In many ways, our campaign this year will be the same as last time: We're still going to focus on fixing up basics and cleaning up ethics at City Hall.

The past will find a way to squeeze into the present–if you let it.

Nonfiction brought me back to earth and sobered me up whenever it seemed like I'd become too drunk on the lives and loves of imaginary people, but that doesn't mean it was any less thrilling or transporting, although it was often more illuminating.

There is a perfect someone, even if the road to that someone isn’t all that perfect.

Fire will burn any human body it touches, and starvation will waste it, but stories are not so predictable in their effects.