What some people wanted was sometimes too hard to get, and the stress of trying was sometimes too hard to deal with... Maybe doing well in life was just too hard for some people.

Reading is not optional.

The movie is more real in so many ways than the life I am leading. No, that’s not true. I just desperately wish this was only a movie.

I write in a small office at home.

It is this language of values which I hope to bring to my books. . . . I want to bring values to those who have not been valued, and I want to etch those values in terms of the ideal. Young people need ideals which identify them, and their lives, as central . . . guideposts which tell them what they can be, should be, and indeed are.

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

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.