Hiding under the bed doesn't make the worry stop.

She looked at her hand: Just some hand, holding a cheap pen. Some girls’ hand. She had nothing to do with that hand. Let that hand do whatever it wanted to.

You could say that all of life is a series of last chances.

People can be unimaginably foolish...and they can be unimaginably grand, at times.

I have the feeling that I know who I am, only I'm not anymore.

Rebellion is necessary for development of character.

You must not let yourself become too respectable. Keep yourself a little wild. What is life for, if not for the living of it?

She couldn’t get any farther away inside from her skin. She couldn’t get away.

All I wanted to do was read, to be told stories. Stories were full of excitement and emotions and characters that entertained and often inspired.

Even the bad books I write are satisfying. I'm my least critical reader.

I do have trouble starting books. I have ideas that I have trouble starting to write. But I'm the kind of person who tends to finish everything she starts out of sheer stubbornness.

It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.

Each day provides its own gifts.

Virtue when concealed is a worthless thing.

If you're going to win games, you're going to have to come up with the big hits. That's the bottom line.

The only man, woman, or child who wrote a simple declarative sentence with seven grammatical errors "is dead."

I was brought up in industrial south Lancashire, down the cobbled road from where LS Lowry (1887-1976) lived and painted.

Upon the creatures we have made, we are, ourselves, at last, dependent.

The definition of prayer is paying careful and concentrated attention to something other than your own constructions.

The Chinese soldier was tough, brave, and experienced. After all he had been fighting on his own without help for years. He was a veteran among the Allies.

You have to give up some of the old so that you can make room for the new.