Be willing to be a child and be the Lilliputian in the world of Gulliver.

Such a small, pure object a poem could be, made of nothing but air a tiny string of letters, maybe small enough to fit in the palm of your hand. But it could blow everybody's head off.

There are women succeeding beyond their wildest dreams because of their sobriety.

I was 40 years old before I became an overnight success, and I'd been publishing for 20 years.

When you do try to picture the boys who do ask you out, they're absolutely featureless, like old carvings eroded by centuries of rain and wind.

Sure the world breeds monsters, but kindness grows just as wild.

I'm bred for farm work, and for such folk, the only A's you get come from effort. Strife and strain are all the world can offer, and they temper you into something unbreakable because Lord knows they'll try -- without let up -- to break you.