It’s funny how people don’t give that much thought to what kids want, as long as they’re being quiet.
In the scullery kitchens and probably the salt mines of this world, many a child is not so much raised as hammered into shape, Artie. To be of use. Surviving by the grace of utility alone.
In my opinion, mountains don't move. They only look changed when you look down on them from a greaty height.
He spoke for an hour on the nonviolent road to independence. The crowd loved it so much they rioted and killed twelve people.
Everyone wants the tallest tree to fall
But are there books, books there are! Rattling words on the page calling my eyes to dance with them.
But I've swallowed my pride before, that's for sure. I'm practically lined with my mistakes on the inside like a bad-wallpapered bathroom.
A thousand fishes make the school, but they always move together: one great, bright, brittle altogetherness.
A novel! Why do you say this won't liberate anyone? Where does any man go to be free, whether he is poor or rich or even in prison? To Dostoyevsky! To Gogol!
Why, he very nearly almost looked handsome. If you could ignore the telltale signs that he is a certified creep.
But I'll tell you a secret. When I want to take God at his word exactly I take a peep out the window at His Creation. Because that, darling, He makes fresh for us every day, without a lot of dubious m...
I've always seen the world through the eyes of a scientist. I love the predictable outcomes that science gives us, the control over the world that that can render.
I can count all the ways in which being a mother has enriched my understanding of the world, of character, my sense of the future and my attachment to it. I can't imagine what kind of writer I'd be if...
I think the most interesting parts of human experience might be the sparks that come from that sort of chipping flint of cultures rubbing against each other. And living on the border between Mexico an...
Stopped: a final swish in the tall grass
Of people: if the shark comes, they will all escape, and leave you to be eaten.
Nothing wondrous can come in this world unless it rests on the shoulders of kindness.
Will you explain to me why people encourage delusional behaviour in children, and medicate it in adults?
When people run for their lives they frequently neglect to bring along their file cabinets of evidence, she said. Mattie wasn’t often bitter but when she was, she was. I didn’t want to believe the wor...
When men fear the loss of what they know, they will follow any tyrant who promises to restore the old order.