I think anyone can fall in love, if you're open and you're willing, but the real test is sustaining it after all the excitement has worn off.

Royal Young's writing is that rare blend of irony and beauty.

I read books because I love them, not because I think I should read them.

Language is like drinking from one's own reflection in still water. We only take from it what we are at the time.

Children are the closest we have to wisdom and they become adults the moment that final drop of everything mysterious is strained from them.

I wonder if things can happen too early or too late or if everything happens at exactly the right time. If so, how sad and beautiful.

For some people, life is the process of knocking through walls to get out. For others, it is the building of walls.