None of you [men] ask for anything - except everything, but just for so long as you need it.

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

Any human anywhere will blossom in a hundred unexpected talents and capacities simply by being given the opportunity to do so.

The older I get the more secrets I have, never to be revealed and this, I know, is a common condition of people my age. and why all this emphasis on kissing and telling? Kisses are the least of it.

A public library is the most democratic thing in the world. What can be found there has undone dictators and tyrants: demagogues can persecute writers and tell them what to write as much as they like, but they cannot vanish what has been written in the past, though they try often enough...People who love literature have at least part of their minds immune from indoctrination. If you read, you can learn to think for yourself.

I've always disliked words like inspiration. Writing is probably like a scientist thinking about some scientific problem, or an engineer about an engineering problem.

Coincidences are God's way of remaining anonymous.