there were crimes and quarrels, alongside kindness and cooperation; there were people who loved each other and people who did not; it was a human world.

The commercial work of today is the classics of tomorrow.

Quim," she said, "don't ever try to teach me about good and evil. I've been there, and you've seen nothing but a map.

Every person is defined by the communities she belongs to.

If a pig goes upon the threshing-floor, or a field, or a garden, and the owner of the meadow, or the field, or the garden smites it so that it die, he shall give it back to its owner; but if he does not give it back, he becomes a thief.

There's no need to legalize gay marriage. I have plenty of gay friends who are committed couples; some of them call themselves married, some don't, but their friends treat them as married. Anybody who doesn't like it just doesn't hang out with them.

If you read to your kids you'll make readers out of them, partly because they'll associate reading with good parent time.