I don't think it is an easy thing to write and expect to be commercial, even if you are from Venus and a hermaphrodite.

As a little girl, I didn't like stories about little girls. I liked stories about dragons and beasts and princes and princesses and fear and terror and the Four Musketeers and almost anything other than nice little girls making moral decisions about whether to tell the teacher about what the other little girl did or did not do.

The individual appears for an instant, joins the community of thought, modifies it and dies; but the species, that dies not, reaps the fruit of his ephemeral existence.

Only write to me, write to me, I love to see the hop and skip and sudden starts of your ink.

Once you get older, people stop listening to what you say. It's very agreeable once you get used to it.

You know, it's a truism that writers for children must still be children themselves, deep down, must still feel childish feelings, and a child's surprise at the world.

He felt changed, but there was no one to tell.