Come away with me, he said, we will live on a desert island. I said, I am a desert island. It was not what he had in mind.

I exist in two places, here and where you are.

If we read books all the time we would be very unhealthy, as we would not get any fresh air, exercise, or contact with nature. Also we would not spend time with other people. There are a lot of plusses to reading - it's an interactive brain workout - but like everything else that's beneficial in moderation, overdoses can be dangerous.

Yelling is a form of publishing

Reading and writing, like everything else, improve with practice. And, of course, if there are no young readers and writers, there will shortly be no older ones. Literacy will be dead, and democracy - which many believe goes hand in hand with it - will be dead as well.

Moira was like an elevator with open sides. She made us dizzy.

We battled in secret, undeclared, and after a while I no longer fought back because I never won. The only defense was flight, invisibility.