The basis of everything, of all knowledge, is the ability to read.

I lived," Dor said, "but I was not alive.

There is a time for hello and a time for good-bye. It's why the act of burying thing seems natural, but the act of digging them up does not.

Look, no matter where you live, the biggest defect we human beings have is our shortsightedness. We don’t see what we could be. We should be looking at our potential, stretching ourselves into everything we can become. But if you’re surrounded by people who say ‘I want mine now,’ you end up with a few people with everything and a military to keep the poor ones from rising up and stealing it.

As long as we can love each other, and remember the feeling of love we had, we can die without ever really going away.

Suddenly, details seemed extremely important. Details were something to grab on to, a way to insert myself into the story.

I think we hear a lot of talk about college, and we don't hear about early education.