Love me when I least deserve it, because that’s when I really need it.

It's always too late for sorries, but I appreciate the sentiment.

Imagine a mosaic picture of a house in the country: lots of red and blue and yellow and black and brown and white and a dozen different shades of green tiles which make a beautiful picture if you stand back far enough. All the little red squares are true - true things, true places, true feelings. But the red squares aren't the picture. All the rest of it is lies and stories, often within the same sentence.

I was a normal child. Which is to say, I was selfish and I was not entirely convinced of the existence of things that were not me, and I was certain, rock-solid, unshakeably certain, that I was the most important thing in creation. There was nothing that was more important to me than I was.

Libraries are the thin red line between civilization and barbarism.

I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes...you're Doing Something.

The simplest way to make sure that we raise literate children is to teach them to read, and to show them that reading is a pleasurable activity.