Fail big if you have to, but go down trying.

Governments will rise, and governments will fall, and man will do evil to man, and all we can do is turn our hearts to good.

Sometimes I can spend as long revising a manuscript as I spent writing it in the first place.

I wished I'd known weeks ago that we didn't have to be chaperoned. I remembered my old daydreams: the prince and I, alone together, cuddling and whispering... I probably would have wised up and brocken the engagement sooner.

I was lucky enough not to face any required summer reading lists until I went to college. So I still think of summer as the best time to read for fun.

That porch is a happy-looking place, and my father - burdened, stoop-shouldered, cadaverously thin - doesn't seem to belong on it.

He looked at the piles of food again, and it was like he was seeing it with new eyes. This is wrong, he thought. Letting food rot while people die of hunger. It's evil.