And here in this room, I re-experience the memories again and again it is how wisdom comes and how we shape our future.

The worst part of holding the memories is not the pain. It's the loneliness of it. Memories need to be shared.

She smiles, and her eyes look as if they can see back into her memory, into all the things that have gone into making a person what they are.

I feel sorry for anyone who is in a place where he feels strange and stupid.

When I wrote 'The Giver,' it contained no so-called 'bad words.' It was set, after all, in a mythical, futuristic, and Utopian society. Not only was there no poverty, divorce, racism, sexism, pollution, or violence in the world of 'The Giver'; there was also careful attention paid to language: to its fluency, precision, and power.

I believe without a single shadow of a doubt that it is necessary for young people to learn to make choices. Learning to make right choices is the only way they will survive in an increasingly frightening world.