The first casualty in any war is the truth. In World War II, I was part of a group of people who used to meet once a week with the sole purpose of analyzing the news and trying to work out what we weren't being told. We thought that we were clever, but we had absolutely no idea what was really going on. It was only years later that we learned the true story.

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

One certainty we all accept is the condition of being uncertain and insecure.

Every child has the capacity to be everything.

What I had that others didn't was a capacity for sticking to it.

Don't read a book out of its right time for you.

In the writing process, the more the story cooks, the better. The brain works for you even when you are at rest. I find dreams particularly useful. I myself think a great deal before I go to sleep and the details sometimes unfold in the dream.