Often the mass emotions are those which seem the noblest, best and most beautiful. And yet, inside a year, five years, a decade, five decades, people will be asking, "How could you have believed that?" because events will have taken place that will have banished the said mass emotions to the dustbin of history.

[Some people think] that storytelling is telling jokes. So they have to be discouraged! Then others think that storytelling-is like an encounter group . . .

That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've understood all your life, but in a new way.

I wanted to write about my mother as she should have been if she had not been messed up by World War I.

Time and distance from the first and second world wars doesn't seem to lessen their horrors.

Is there any delight as great as the child's discovering ability?

If a fish is the movement of water embodied, given shape, then cat is a diagram and pattern of subtle air.