Most damning of phrases: He meant well.

It is an amazing thing, the difference to one’s powers of concentration a pair of comfortable shoes can make.

Using insult instead of argument is the sign of a small mind.

I crawled into my book and pulled the pages over my head.

You cannot help being a female, and I should be something of a fool were I to discount your talents merely because of their housing.

Impossibility is a log thrown on the fires of love.

...but somehow the madness around me and the turmoil I carried within myself acted as counterweights, and I survived in the centre.

It was hypnotic, and then it was unsettling, and finally I became aware of another entity in my universe, sitting on the shore two hundred yards away, smoking a pipe.

That's what tears are for, you know, to wash away the fear and cool the hate.

Only the careless leave a possibility unattended due to assumptions.

Libraries made me - as a reader, as a writer, and as a human being.

Have the courage to rise from the challenges of life like a phoenix from the flames or you'll get lost in the ashes of despair, pain, and regret.

You leave home, I have learned, counting the trip day by day. If you ever get to return, you count the trip miracle by miracle.

Gratitude is not just a word

For me, love is happiness and inspiration.

Who questions much, shall learn much, and retain much.

What was money that it should make such dreadful things of men and women?

On the whole I prefer cats to women because cats seldom if ever use the word 'relationship'.

Only love and courage will make this world a safer place. Hatred and fear will make it more dangerous.

Our criminal justice system has swallowed up too many people I love. I am proud to join the ACLU in the fight to make mass incarceration a thing of the past.

The more men have to lose, the less willing are they to venture.