Do you not believe that animals know grief and fear and pain? The world of men is not an easy one for them.

Books can truly change our lives: the lives of those who read them, the lives of those who write them. Readers and writers alike discover things they never knew about the world and about themselves.

We don't need to have just one favorite. We keep adding favorites. Our favorite book is always the book that speaks most directly to us at a particular stage in our lives. And our lives change. We have other favorites that give us what we most need at that particular time. But we never lose the old favorites. They're always with us. We just sort of accumulate them.

I know that some readers think (The High King) should have ended differently. I cried for three days afterwards.

She had no particular breed in mind, no unusual requirements. Except the special sense of mutual recognition that tells dog and human they have both come to the right place.

-"He loved her...It was noble of him. It was beautiful." -"It was stupid.

The point is not to look back, but to look ahead to what you hope still to do.