What I do with my books is to create windows to my world that all may peer into. I share the images, the feelings and thoughts, and, I hope, the delight.

That's what's wrong with women. They want you to wait for them until they get ready and then they don't even tell you how they feel.

But now, like a fallen sparrow On a golden chain, I'm forever bound in shadow, A prisoner to my pain.

The best time to cry is at night, when the lights are out and someone is being beaten up and screaming for help.

But in the end, we learn we can forgive most people. The cushion of mortality makes their wrongdoing seem less dark, and whatever roads they traveled seem less foolhardy.

We all know we should eat right and we should exercise, but reading is treated as if it's this wonderful adjunct.

We all think we're different, but when it comes around, we end up needing the same things. Somebody to love us. Somebody to respect us.