I feel sorry for anyone who is in a place where he feels strange and stupid.

Then I went home to continue my life, which had changed a little, as lives do every day, inching by microspecks forward toward whatever surprises are coming next.

It's hard to give up the being together with someone.

There will always be a place for bunnies to talk in rhyme, but that's not what I do.

She fell asleep, and it was a sleep as thin as the night clouds, dotted with dreams that came and went like the stars.

I write books because I have always been fascinated by stories and language, and because I love thinking about what makes people tick. Writing a story... 'The Giver' or any other... is simply an exploration of the nature of behavior: why people do what they do, how it affects others, how we change and grow, and what decisions we make along the way.

I've always been interested in medicine and was pleased when my brother became a doctor. But after thinking seriously about that field, I realized that what intrigued me was not the science, not the chemistry or biology of medicine, but the narrative - the story of each patient, each illness.