When I visit schools and talk to students about writing, I give them one word of advice and I give it to them quickly and loudly-FINISH! Starting som….

I am convinced that not only do children need children's books to fine-tune their brains, but our civilization needs them if we are not going to unpl….

Silence does for thinking what a suspension bridge does for space -- it makes connections..

When you hug someone, you learn something else about them. An important something else..

Talk was like the vitamins of our friendship: Large daily doses kept it healthy..

It often takes more courage to be a passenger than a driver..

Often the search proves more profitable than the goal..

Lying in bed just before going to sleep is the worst time for organized thinking; it is the best time for free thinking. Ideas drift like clouds in a….

Happiness is excitement that has found a settling down place, but there is always a little corner that keeps flapping around..

They are saying that if life has a structure, a staff, a sensible scaffold, we hang our nonsense on it. And they are saying that broken parts add col….

Some days you must learn a great deal. But you should also have days when you allow what is already in you to swell up and touch everything. If you n….

I waited for her to catch up, and when I did, she slowed down, and I missed seeing the light in her hair. I never told Nadia how much I liked seeing ….

The adventure is over. Everything gets over, and nothing is ever enough. Except the part you carry with you. It's the same as going on a vacation. So….

Never have a long conversation with anyone who says "between you and I..

Five minutes of planning are worth fifteen minutes of just looking..

Biding one's time is a very different thing from patience..

Before you can be anything, you have to be yourself. That's the hardest thing to find..

Sometimes we even have to risk making fools of ourselves..

I'm not sure that love and like aren't like cats and dogs: One can't grow up to be the other, but they can be taught to live under the same roof..

Indecisiveness wears a person out..

The eyes are the windows of the soul.... If someone was to look into your eyes, what would you want them to see?.