There was a time when young people respected learning and literature and now they don't.

On the news two dozen events of fantastically different importance are announced in exactly the same tone of voice. The voice doesn't discriminate between a divorce, a horse race, a war in the Middle East.

I hated the 1960's feminists," she says. "They were dogmatists, you see. In comes ideology, and out goes common sense. This is my experience of life.

You have to give up a great deal of life, your personal life, to be a writer.

It is my belief...that the talents every child has, regardless of his official 'I.Q,' could stay with him through life, to enrich him and everybody else, if these talents were not regarded as commodities with a value in the success-stakes.

there are two kinds of humanity, those who dream and those who don't, and both tend to despise, or to tolerate, the other.

Argument does not teach children or the immature. Only time and experience does that.