As you become acquainted with a character you are creating, you add parts of yourself that are pertinent to that character.

I'm still astonished that somebody would offer me a job and pay me to do what I wanted to do.

I started reading when I was about three, a little over three.

You do not 'suffer' if you decide 'that's the way it is' rather than 'why is it this way?'

A lion's work hours are only when he's hungry; once he's satisfied, the predator and prey live peacefully together.

Censorship, I believe, is the most dangerous enemy to all human communication, and piety of intention is probably the most dangerous, the most virulent and the most self-satisfying.

In 1918, when I was 6 or 7 years old, radio was just coming into use in the Great War.