How we lie to ourselves when we've fallen in love with the wrong man.

We have to face the pain we have been running from. In fact, we need to learn to rest in it and let its searing power transform us.

It doesn't make any sense. If the SIM are policemen, secret or not, shouldn't we trust them instead of being afraid of them?

Depression is always in the details.

Marjorie Agosin proves the power of the word to transport us to the center of her humane and human vision.

Terrence, the Roman slave who freed himself with his writings, once observed, "I am a human being. Nothing human is alien to me." That could be the motto of literature!

I think it is important to know how to teach new material to help young people grow and learn.

Literature is about being a complex, contradictory human being.

Reading is a way to take in the difficult situations and understand them. The whole point of reading a book in class is to have discussion about what these situations are like.

Reading and thoughtfulness and openness are the best way, I should think, to begin to address the richness that is in each of us.

Independence didn't have to be exile.

When we read, even if the characters are tragic or sad or disturbing, these are our brothers and sisters in the human family.

There is no end to what can be said about the world

The elasticity of imagination and compassion is what writing and reading promote.

Schools provide safe spaces to talk about controversial issues, and literature presents characters portraying human experience in all its richness and contradictoriness.

Every writer can tell you that a book is only truly alive when it finds passionate readers who bring it alive in their imaginations.

I admit that for me love goes deeper than the struggle, or maybe what I mean is, love is the deeper struggle.

Everyone needs a strong sense of self. It is our base of operations for everything that we do in life.

A book does not discriminate against any reader. All are welcome at the table of literature.