We do not know which of our silver products will be judged as gold by our successors, nor does it matter.

She was thirty-nine. No, she did not envy her eighteen-year- old self at all. But she did envy, envied every day more bitterly, that young girl's genuine independence, largeness, scope, and courage.

It is terrible to destroy a person's picture of himself in the interests of truth or some other abstraction.

There is only one way to read, which is to browse in libraries and bookshops, picking up books that attract you, reading only those, dropping them when they bore you, skipping the parts that drag...

I didn't go to school much, so I taught myself what I knew from reading.

Things are not quite so simple always as black and white.

Literature is analysis after the event.