When you read to a child, when you put a book in a child's hands, you are bringing that child news of the infinitely varied nature of life. You are an awakener.

Words are nets through which all truth escapes("News From The World")

A good novel begins with a small question and ends with a bigger one.

He smiled and bent forward, a hand on each knee, his truculence gleaming through his smile like a stone under water.

You'll see some bad things, but if you didn't see them, they'd still be happening.