There was a time when we expected nothing of our children but obedience, as opposed to the present, when we expect everything of them but obedience.

For years they have been using the role of 'sex object' as a cover while they spied out the land.

A bookcase is as good as a view, as much of a panorama as the sight of a city or a river. There are dawns and sunsets in books - storms and zephyrs.

People ... have no idea what a hard job it is for two writers to be friends. Sooner or later you have to talk about each other's work.

We don't simply read books. We become them.

The tension between 'yes' and no', between 'I can' and 'I cannot,' makes us feel that, in so many instances, human life is an interminable debate with one's self.

To be misunderstood can be the writer's punishment for having disturbed the reader's peace. The greater the disturbance, the greater the possibility of misunderstanding.