It is my belief...that the talents every child has, regardless of his official 'I.Q,' could stay with him through life, to enrich him and everybody else, if these talents were not regarded as commodities with a value in the success-stakes.

What matters most is that we learn from living.

Literature is analysis after the event.

All my friends' mothers were appalling women.

Living in a small town anywhere means preserving one's self behind a mask.

My father was in the First World War.

My mother was a woman who was very frustrated. She had a great deal of ability, and all this energy went into me and my brother.