Alice would choose to love herself, different and extraordinary, every day of the week.

Mother often said that she could never be bothered to understand why Alice did the things she did, and now, more than ever, Alice thought never being bothered was a very lazy way to love someone.

Red was ruby, green was fluorescent, yellow was simply incandescent. Color was life. Color was everything.Color, you see, was the universal sign of magic.

Best to introduce yourself to patience now, so that it might find you when you call upon it later.

Studies have shown that thinking and wondering lead to thoughtful decision-making. It's an epidemic.

She'd decided long ago that life was a long journey. She would be strong and she would be weak, and both would be okay.

Before you can successfully make friends with others, first you have to become your own friend.

Time is an illusion, only the keepers of the illusion are real, and the reality they have spun, keeps us, until we set upon the path of the dream.

We may regard certain days as free days. Free days are however fee days. We will pay later

Commercial comedy's often set up to feature an ironist makingdevastating sport of someone who's naive or sentimental or pretentious orpompous.

Nonfiction is easy and fiction is hard.

I consider myself much better adjusted than Gabriel.

God gave the sea the danger and the abyss, but it was in it that He mirrored the sky.

Catch and release fishing may be cruelty masquerading as political correctness

Planning is really the hallmark of any large military formation, and it's typically a weakness in new formations and new armies.

I'd decided to take the risk, and either I'd succeed or else.