Nothing in the world is like this-a bright white page withpale blue lines. The smell of a newly sharpened pencilthe soft hush of itmoving finallyone dayinto letters.

But on paper, things can live forever. On paper, a butterfly never dies.

When there are many worldsyou can choose the oneyou walk into each day.

My mother has a gap betweenher two front teeth. So does Daddy Gunnar.Each child in this family has the same spaceconnecting us.

Y'all know how much I love you? "Infinity and back again, " I say the way I've said it a million times. And then, daddy says to me, "go on and add a little bit more to that.

Do you remember?' Someone's always asking andsomeone else, always does

Books are boring, " James said as he wrote."They line the walls like a thousand leather doorways to be opened into worlds unknown, " I offered.

The existence of relative truth does not prove the non-existence of universal truth.

...Opinion without a rational process.

Violence is stupid. Even as a last resort, it only ever begets more of the same.

Don't be the best in town. Just try to be the best until the best come around.

Maybe all men are a drug. Sometimes they bring you down and sometimes, like now, they get you so high.

I try to do one thing at a time to utilise my time well.

There are only two kinds of parents. Those who think their offspring can do nothing wrong, and those who think they can do nothing right.

A man capable of torturing another human being, even if he's scum, feels something break in him, the most important thing that he has, his humanity, his soul if you want.

Every new discovery of science is a further 'revelation' of the order which God has built into His universe.