Even trained for years as they all had been in precision of language, what words could you use which would give another the experience of sunshine?

It's a funny thing about names, how they become a part of someone.

We live in times that are in many ways ambiguous. Maybe that's why kids want precision in what they read - they don't like that moral ambiguity.

I was a sidelines child: never class president, never team captain, never the one with the most valentines in my box.

Teasing's part of the fun that comes before kissing

I knew that there had been times in the past-terrible times-when people had destroyed others in haste,in fear, and had brought about their own destruction

I have been fortunate. I have done so many things and enjoyed so many things and had such a great life, not to imply that it is ending, but that there aren't many things that I feel I have left undone.