I'm more interested in books than people, and I always expect everybody else to be, but they're not.

Where would we be without inhibitions? Theyre quite useful things when you look at some of the things humans do if they lose them.

…words have been all my life, all my life--this need is like the Spider's need who carries before her a huge Burden of Silk which she must spin out--the silk is her life, her home, her safety--her food and drink too--and if it is attacked or pulled down, why, what can she do but make more, spin afresh, design anew….

I think the virtue I prize above all others is curiosity.

It's a terrible poison, writing.

I think the virtue I prize above all others is curiosity. If you look really hard at almost anybody, and try to see why they're doing what they're doing, taking a dig at them ceases to be what you want to do even if you hate them.

Outside our small safe place flies mystery.