My great blessing is my son, but I have daughters. I have white ones and Black ones and fat ones and thin ones and pretty ones and plain. I have gay ones and straight. I have daughters. I have Asian ones, I have Jewish ones, I have Muslim ones.

The desire to reach for the stars is ambitious. The desire to reach hearts is wise.

[Librarians] study their field with as much determination and as much delight as open-heart surgeons.

When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.

Don't face the day until you've faced God.

Hate, it has caused a lot of problems in the world, but has not solved one yet.

To be left alone on the tightrope of youthful unknowing is to experience the excruciating beauty of full freedom and the threat of eternal indecision. Few, if any, survive their teens. Most surrender to the vague but murderous pressure of adult conformity. It becomes easier to die and avoid conflict than to maintain a constant battle with the superior forces of maturity.