My mother is so full of joy and life. I am her child. And that is better than being the child of anyone else in the world.

Original thinking migrates each day in search of nourishment.

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

The loss of young first love is so painful that it borders on the ludicrous.

If somebody is really trying to take your head off with a baseball bat - I don't know how long you're supposed to stand there and turn the other cheek, so he or she can get a better angle at taking your head off.

At fifteen life had taught me undeniably that surrender, in its place, was as honorable as resistance, especially if one had no choice.

Beneath the skin, beyond the differing features and into the true heart of being, fundamentally, we are more alike, my friend, than we are unalike.