Bumble-Ardy looks like a happy book. That's the funniest thing about it. But this was survival. I was working very hard to survive.

Children surviving childhood is my obsessive theme and my life's concern.

Childhood is a tricky business. Usually, something goes wrong.

Newt Gingrich is an idiot of great renown... There's something so hopelessly gross and vile about him it's hard to take him seriously.

There should be a place where only the things you want to happen, happen.

When Mozart is playing in my room, I am in conjunction with something I can't explain... I don't need to. I know that if there's a purpose for life, it was for me to hear Mozart.

There's so much more to a book than just the reading.