If you turn the imagination loose like a hunting dog, it will often return with the bird in its mouth.

Reading is rapture (or if it isn't, I put the book down meaning to go on with it later, and escape out the side door).

The reason life is so strange is that so often people have no choice.

It was lovely when you found students who responded to things you were enthusiastic about.

Happiness is the light on the water. The water is cold and dark and deep.

The nail doesn't choose the time or the circumstances in which it is drawn to the magnet

Who knows what oversensitive is, considering all there is to be sensitive to.