Money will not change how healthy you are or how many people love you.
The propensity to do good things is a choice.
I had a kind of Dickensian childhood.
I'm not a big fan of religion for that reason. But I am a true believer in God, and I have great faith, and I think that a spiritual connection with something is a really important part of our experience. That doesn't necessarily have anything to do with the church.
I'm not cynical about marriage or romance. I enjoyed being married. And although being single was fun for a while, there was always the risk of dating someone who'd owned a lunch box with my picture on it.
My idea of what's good and bad and right and wrong is maybe greyer than most, and I like writing about that.
You have this special connection with someone if you're their first record or their first concert or their first poster or whatever it is.
Sometimes witches merit saving. Quite often, actually. You'd be surprised.
Books don't change people; paragraphs do, Sometimes even sentences.
We adults protect ourselves with laws, police, workplace regulations and social norms and there is no conceivable reason why children should be left more vulnerable, other that laziness or callousness in considering what life is like from their point of view.
By the mid 1970s, the great downtown bookstores had begun to disappear as their customers migrated from city to suburb where population density was too thin to support major backlist retailers.