I think kids ought to travel. I think it's very good to carry kids around. It's good for them. Of course it's tough on the parents.

I don't think that the feminist movement has done much for the characters of women.

Little Tamar, forget the long ago. We are here and we are now, and that is all. We are making a new start.

It is quite easy to remark the absurdities and contradictions of a country's social system from outside its borders, but very difficult if one has been brought up in it.

Every child has the capacity to be everything.

A writer falls in love with an idea and gets carried away.

There is only one real sin and that is to persuade oneself that the second best is anything but second best.