I think that people all grow up and have their same personalities, but you can say, "Oh, I can see the roots of this personality, which I didn't like, but then you grew up, and I can still see you as that person, but I do really like you now." Which is sort of how I feel about children - I mean, about children who I knew when I was a child and grew up with, and they're still my friends, and children that I know as children who I see growing up, and every year I like them more.

I am not mature enough as a reader to enjoy a book in which I hate all the people.

Home, bed, sleep, mother--who knew more beautiful words than these?

Some people need a huge amount of attention, and they are worthy of that attention, and they're still exhausting.

Nonfiction is easy and fiction is hard.

Using your imagination is the one time in life you can really go anywhere.

Society was nothing but a long, dull dinner party conversation in which one was forced to speak to one's partner on both the left and the right.