Words Are Nets Through Which All Truth

To Be Human Is To Be In A Story.

Teachers Inspire The Smallest Hearts To Grow Big Enough To Change The World.

Life Was An Impenetrable Mystery Cloaked In Babble.

I Don't Know What Makes A Writer's Voice. It's Dozens Of Things. There Are People Who Write Who Don't Have It. They're Tone-deaf, Even Though They're Very Fluent. It's An Ability, Like Anything Else, Being A Doctor Or A Veterinarian, Or A Musician.

It Was Hard To Reassure Grown-ups When You Weren't Certain Yourself What You Were Feeling And Thinking—when Thoughts Dissolved Before You Could Name Them.