Flora would have liked to ask her parents why the words ‘to father’ have such a different meaning from the words ‘to mother’.

Writing does not exist unless there is someone to read it, and each reader will take something different from a novel, from a chapter, from a line.

If I could talk it like Dahoum, you would never be tired of listening to me.

The only thing that keeps us from a place of joy is an illusion, the illusion of fear.

The future of publishing is about having connections to readers and the knowledge of what those readers want.

I come from a family of screamers. If they are trying to express any emotion or idea beyond pass the salt, it comes in shrieks.

A dollar saved is a quarter earned.

I own a lot of shoes; I am not sure how many.

Chemistry is the melodies you can play on vibrating strings.

I believe that there's a way to question authority with manners, with dignity. There's no reason to be rude about it.

These are questions for action, not speculation, which is idle.

We live today not in the digital, not in the physical, but in the kind of minestrone that our mind makes of the two.