Fools commit suicide and think they’re doing themselves a favor.

I mean, if you think about doing things to people like that, if you think about it too much, it gets all up in you and you can’t control it after a while. Then they...

I took the thin magazine from the pouch in front of me and began to thumb through it. I felt self-conscious, as if I shouldn’t be there. My mind began to wander, as I knew...

Cutting people out of your life is easy, keeping them in is hard.

Yeah, it’s hard, babyIt’s hard right down to the boneI said Oh, it’s hard babyIt’s hard right down to the very boneIt’s hard when you’re a womanAnd you find yourself all aloneI’ve been flapping and...

Reading is not optional.

…when we feel powerless, we stop trying to find a better way.

We’re suggesting that [kids are] missing something if they don’t read but, actually, we’re condemning kids to a lesser life. If you had a sick patient, you would not try to entice them to take...

All the authors I studied, all the historical figures, with the exception of George Washington Carver, and all those figures I looked upon as having importance were white men. I didn’t mind that they were...

All of fiction is truthful. What you create is your own truth and no one can take that away or change it.

Books have always been among my most trusted of friends, Mr. Linden replied. The best of them allow the mind to wander wherever the author’s musings lead.

The little people you see running around over here are not Mouseketeers. Some of them are friendly, and some of them have a strong desire to kill you. If you remember that, and manage to...

Go. Think. Turn black into white.Night into day. I am tired of thinking.I know where it will lead me and I don’tWant to be there.Go love. Do your thinking.

Let me thinkThinking is all I haveIf wisdom is a pretenseThen let me pretend to be wise