Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone; it has to be made... - Ursula K. Le Guin

"I use a whole lot of half-assed semicolons; there was one of them just now; that was a semicolon after 'semicolons,' and another one after 'now."

"Gradually the healing took place, seeming as it always does that it wasn't taking place."

"The creative adult is the child who has survived."

"As great scientists have said and as all children know, it is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception, and compassion, and hope."

"We read books to find out who we are. What other people, real or imaginary, do and think and feel... is an essential guide to our understanding of what we ourselves are and may become."