Humor is anger that was sent to finishing school.

I caught a glimpse of happiness, and saw it was a bird on a branch, fixing to take wing.

Only the nonreader fears books.

Martin Wilson's What They Always Tell Us hears the voices of the young as they struggle toward adulthood.

Writing is communication, not self-expression. Nobody in this world wants to read your diary except your mother.

...they'd just tell you to turn the other cheek, wouldn't they?...Trouble is, Mrs. Dowdel observed, after you've turned the other cheek four times, you run out of cheeks.

We write by the light of every story we have ever read.