It's a funny thing, hope. It's not like love, or fear, or hate. It's a feeling you don't really know you had until it's gone. - Anna Quindlen

I lived within the cover of books and those books were more real to me than any other thing in my life.

There was a period when I believed stuff meant something. I thought that if you had matching side chairs and a sofa that harmonized and some beautiful lamps to light them you would have a home, that elegance signaled happiness.

Ignorance is death. A closed mind is a catafalque.