This is truly marvelous work full of mystery, nostalgia, joy, The Color of Whimsy.

The library is a place where most of the things I came to value as an adult had their beginnings.

He tried to imagine the sound of the color red.

For those without money, the road to the treasure house of the imagination begins at the public library.

It's odd being an American now. Most of us are peaceful, but here we are again, in our fifth major war of this century.

My ambition was to embrace those general qualities that Ernest Hemingway, a former newspaperman, once said should be present in all good books: 'the good and the bad, the ecstasy, the remorse and sorrow, the people and the places and how the weather was.'

There is a growing feeling that perhaps Texas is really another country, a place where the skies, the disasters, the diamonds, the politicians, the women, the fortunes, the football players and the murders are all bigger than anywhere else.