There is zero, and there is eternity, and there is mortality, but there is no ultimate.

A library is a place where you can live a thousand lives. So why are you waiting when you could be living? Visit your library today.

The family exists for many reasons, but its most basic function may be to draw together after a member dies.

Some things were better lost than found.

I just write about what I feel I want to write about. I'm like a kid. I get an idea, and it's like a kid's toy that you push and tug around the room. It's fun, it's bright, it's pretty and maybe it'll go clack-clack or whiz-whiz, whatever it happens to do. I like to make believe.

All you imagined, no matter how wild it might seem, was no more than a disguised version of what you already knew.

I was in enough to get along with people. I was never socially inarticulate. Not a loner. And that saved my life, saved my sanity. That and the writing. But to this day I distrust anybody who thought school was a good time. Anybody.