Some so fear the future that they suffocate the present. It's like committing suicide to avoid being murdered.

So much of young adult literature has turned dark, almost pathological. It's almost as if there is a race to see who can be the most dysfunctional.

It's our memories that make us who we are. Without them, we're nothing. If that means we have to hurt sometimes, it's worth it.

The most important story we'll ever write in life is our own-not with ink, but with our daily choices.

. . .and every native has a story of winter – stories that usually begin, You call this a storm? And grow in the telling like battle tales shared by graying war veterans. It’s a peculiar character flaw to those of us from cold climates that we feel superior to those who have the sense to live elsewhere.

We cannot enslave others without enslaving a part of ourselves.

When I think of God I feel like an ant crawling into a computer.