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.

I was born and raised in Ohio. During my childhood, I spent most of my time drawing and reading fairy tales and myths.

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.

Life's got to be lived, no matter how long or short. You got to take what comes.

You dont have to live forever just live.

Still-there's no use trying to figure why things fall the way they do. Things just are, and fussing don't bring changes.