As one went to Europe to see the living past, so one must visit Southern California to observe the future.

Nature can seem cruel, but she balances her books.

America has a history of political isolation and economic self-sufficiency; its citizens have tended to regard the rest of the world as a disaster area from which lucky or pushy people emigrate to the Promised Land.

Other wars end eventually in victory, defeat or exhaustion, but the war between men and women goes on forever.

Fashion is free speech, and one of the privileges, if not always one of the pleasures, of a free world

The great subversive works of children's literature suggest that there are other views of human life besides those of the shopping mall and the corporation. They mock current assumptions and express the imaginative, unconventional, noncommercial view of the world in its simplest and purest form. They appeal to the imaginative, questioning, rebellious child within all of us, renew our instinctive energy, and act as a force for change. This is why such literature is worthy of our attention and will endure long after more conventional tales have been forgotten.

There's a rule, I think. You get what you want in life, but not your second choice too.