And here in this room, I re-experience the memories again and again it is how wisdom comes and how we shape our future.

...now he saw the familiar wide river beside the path differently. He saw all of the light and color and history it contained and carried in its slow - moving water; and he knew that there was an Elsewhere from which it came, and an Elsewhere to which it was going

It is so good to have friends who understand how there is a time for crying and a time for laughing, and that sometimes the two are very close together.

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

You eat canned tuna fish and you absorb protein. Then, if you're lucky, someone give you Dover Sole and you experience nourishment. It's the same with books.

I tend not to think about audience when I'm writing. Many people who read "The Giver" now have their own kids who are reading it. Even from the beginning, the book attracted an audience beyond a child audience.

Today is declared an unscheduled holiday.