The past is a very determined ghost, haunting every chance it gets.

Dreams would always end with you, and then mornings would steal you away with a cruelty that haunted my days.

Adventure,' then, is what might otherwise be called hardship if it were attempted in a different spirit. Turning a difficult task or a perilous journey into an adventure is largely a matter of telling yourself the right story about it, which is one thing that Lewis's child characters have learned from reading, 'the right books.

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

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

Now it's time to focus on basics for people in our neighborhoods... and real ethics reform at City Hall.

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