Children totally accept — and crave — family rules. “In our family we have a rule for X” is the only excuse a parent needs for setting a family policy. In fact， “I have a rule for X” is the only excuse you need for your own personal policies.

I’m a Southern girl. I love being from the South.

Language is a skin: I rub my language against the other. It is as if I had words instead of fingers, or fingers at the tips of my words.

Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?

本我所在之处，自我必将随之。

The fact remains that getting people right is not what living is all about anyway. It's getting them wrong that is living, getting them wrong and wrong and wrong and then, on careful reconsideration, getting them wrong again.

我书中的角色通常是那些在世界上努力寻找自己位置的人。

写作是理解我们关系的一种方式。