We see in others what we want and what we fear.

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

I suppose the key to a good life is to gently overlook the truth and hope that at any moment we can all be reborn.

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

Love requires imagination more than experience.

I tried to convey to the boy how people's lives are often altered by curved lines read slowly from paper, sand, or stone.

Life just swallows you up, doesn't it?Just swallows you up with its everyday things