The current total of countries in the world with First Amendments is one. You have guaranteed freedom of speech. Other countries don't have that.

I lived in books more than I lived anywhere else.

The important thing to understand about American history, wrote Mr. Ibis, in his leather-bound journal, is that it is fictional, a charcoal-sketched simplicity for the children, or the easily bored.

Stories you read when you're the right age never quite leave you. You may forget who wrote them or what the story was called.

Walk any path in Destiny's garden, and you will be forced to choose, not once but many times.

I lay on the bed and lost myself in stories. I liked that. Books were safer than other people anyways.

Names come and names go.