We are all citizens of history.

The kind of poetry to avoid in the pretty-pretty kind that pleased our grandmothers, the kind that Longfellow and Tennyson, good poets at their best, wrote at their worst.

Gertrude Stein was masterly in making nothing happen very slowly

The German mind has a talent for making no mistakes but the very greatest.

Reading to small children is a specialty.

Reading is not an operation performed on something inert but a relationship entered into with another vital being.

My son is 7 years old. I am 54. It has taken me a great many years to reach that age. I am more respected in the community, I am stronger, I am more intelligent and I think I am better than he is. I don't want to be a pal, I want to be a father.