Sometimes when persons say definitely it sounds actually less true.

The great thing about a short story is that it doesn't have to trawl through someone's whole life; it can come in glancingly from the side.

The world is always changing brightness and hotness and soundness, I never know how it's going to be the next minute.

Scared is what you're feeling. Brave is what you're doing.

I look back one more time. It's like a crater, a hole where something happened.

Ma's still nodding. "You're the one who matters, though. Just you." I shake my head till it's wobbling because there's no just me.

It’s called mind over matter. If we don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.” When a bit of me hurts, I always mind.

Books are the air I breathe, so I don't notice the seasons.

If I was made of cake I'd eat myself before somebody else could.

I remember manners, that's when people are scared to make other persons mad.

When I tell her what I’m thinking and she tells me what she’s thinking, our each ideas jumping into the other’s head, like coulouring blue crayon on top of yellow that makes green.

Time plays tricks between here and home, " said Mogget sepulchrally, frightening the life out of the telephone operator.

Prayers only help the person doing the praying, and then, only if they strengthen and focus that person's resolve.

I lend people money, but I'd never lend something that would jeopardise a friendship if I didn't get it back.

We don't have music that talks about sexuality from a female standpoint.

Man was never meant to be a god, but he is forever trying to deify himself.

Cherish your health: If it is good, preserve it. If it is unstable, improve it. If it is beyond what you can improve, get help.

When it comes to art, money is an unimportant detail. It just happens to be a huge unimportant detail.

Getting is more fun than having.

Our spiritual life is a venture in the dark, between the soul and God, and no spiritual life is worth the name unless it is so.

Fairy roses, fairy rings, turn out sometimes troublesome things.