What we call the highest and the lowest in nature are both equally perfect. A willow bush is as beautiful as the human form divine.

I am worn to a raveling.

Here comes Peter Cottontail right down the bunny trail.

The shorter and the plainer the better.

I hold that a strongly marked personality can influence descendants for generations.

I have just made stories to please myself, because I never grew up.

There is something delicious about writing the first words of a story. You never quite know where they'll take you.