We restore order through the imagination. We restore hope over and over and over again ... .

My journal has become a paper mirror, a topographic map to my mind. It is where I go to sort out confusion and decipher the invisible.

So this had been all I wanted, a boy who understood how I felt. Now, though, I sometimes wished for more.

Friendship is a difficult, dangerous job. It is also (though we rarely admit it) extremely exhausting.

It was as if his point of view had, within seconds, gone from that of an ant to that of an eagle. For the sky was hollow, and the world was round.

Thats part of the fun, I guess, is having people excited about seeing you and signing autographs and getting to meet fans and things like that.

We do right enough darling, if we go wrong together.

People always want reasons for things ... but sometimes there are no reasons.

Optimism is denial for chumps with no life experience". "What's pessimism?" I said. "Religion without God.

It is time to change our policy of appeasement toward the Palestinians, to strengthen our ties with the nation of Israel.

Some writers pick a topic and write around that, but I like to include it all.