There is a whole generation of women and it was as if their lives came to a stop when they had children. Most of them got pretty neurotic - because, I think, of the contrast between what they were taught at school they were capable of being and what actually happened to them.

The whole process of writing is a setting at a distance. That is the value of it - to the writer, and to the people who read the results of this process, which takes the raw, the individual, the uncriticized, the unexamined, into the realm of the general.

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

With a library you are free, not confined by temporary political climates. It is the most democratic of institutions because no one - but no one at all - can tell you what to read and when and how.

It usually takes me a year to do a book. A year or eighteen months.

Man who is he? Too bad, to be the work of God: Too good for the work of chance!

The youth do not see the old. They are not programmed to see the old, who are cancelled, negated, wiped out.