The nature of this flower is to bloom.

What a burden to think one is conceived in sin rather than in pleasure; that one is born into evil rather than into joy.

To know is to exist; to exist is to be involved, to move about, to see the world with my own eyes.

It is healthier, in any case, to write for the adults one's children will become than for the children one's 'mature' critics often are.

Human compassion is equal to human cruelty, and it is up to each of us to tip the balance.

I think the foundation of everything in my life is wonder.

In order to be able to live at all in America I must be unafraid to live anywhere in it, and I must be able to live in the fashion and with whom I choose.