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.

Find yourself a cup of tea; the teapot is behind you. Now tell me about hundreds of things. Saki Tea to the English is really a picnic indoors.

My life is not to be somebody else's impact - you know what I mean?

Freedom, after all, is like love: the more you give to others, the more you have.

Critics don't really affect the fact that we live in this paradise and what the meaning of that [is]. And what luck to have this!

She thought of how precious it was to be able to know another person over many years. There was incomparable richness in it.

The infinite faith I have in people's ability to understand anything that makes sense has always been justified, finally, by their behavior.