The novelist helps us to see things we might not notice otherwise.

Meg, when people don't know who they are, they are open either to being Xed, or Named

Maybe that's the best part of going away for a vacation-coming home again.

People are more than just the way they look.

We do learn and develop when we are exposed to those who are greater than we are. Perhaps this is the chief way we mature.

Sometimes when we have to speak suddenly we come closer to the truth than when we have time to think.

I share Einstein's affirmation that anyone who is not lost in rapturous awe at the power and glory of the mind behind the universe "is as good as a burnt out candle."