Passing time isn't a steady thing. People try to measure it, but some days seem to have years packed into them, and others pass in the blink of an eye. Some days matter, and others don't.

You will come to agree with me.

What was a foreigner, anyway? Is the place you're born the only place you really belong? At what point do you stop being from "away" and start being from "here"?

Every book is a box of ideas.

I love the way a list makes a big hodgepodge of things simmer down and behave.

Yes, the wind came up--" Mrs. Sharpe began. She paused."And changed us all, " Petra said softly.

Picasso said that art is a lie, but a lie that tells the truth" ... Calder wondered what Picasso had meant. Was it that art wasn't exactly the real world, but it said something real?

His hands were weak and shaking from carrying far too many books from the bookshop. It was the best feeling.

I cannot imagine a truly beautiful world without courtesy being integral to its culture.

Just as a stressful life can make you depressed, continuing exposure to stressors maintains depression.

Faith is reason grown courageous.

There is a difference between the facts of a person and the truth of him.

I cannot imagine a sorrier pursuit than struggling for years to write a book that attempts to appeal to people who do not read in the first place.

I like to make music, I like rap music. Even if I'm white, I support that music. If I want to support it or any other white kid wants to support it more power to them.

Your director is your everything and you devote yourself to them and you want to help create their vision.

The findings in contemporary social sciences are helping us understand that we can find other ways to educate people and act against injustice and corruption in our society.