It'd be nice to have a new name, to start with, one that's not all worn out from being called so much.

Like all magnificent things, it's very simple.

my mother always found me out. Always. She's been dead for thirty-five years, but I have this feeling that even now she's watching.

The sea can swallow ships, and it can spit out whales like watermelon seeds. It will take what it wants, and it will keep what it has taken, and you may not take away from it what it does not wish to give.

in reading ... stories, you can be many different people in many different places, doing things you would never have a chance to do in ordinary life. It's amazing that those twenty-six little marks of the alphabet can arrange themselves on the pages of a book and accomplish all that. Readers are lucky - they will never be bored or lonely.

Readers are lucky - they will never be bored or lonely.

It'd be nice to have a new name, to start with, one that's not all worn out from being called so much.