You only learn to be a better writer by actually writing.

For she was of that generation who, having found nothing in religion, had formed themselves through literature.

Remember that the book which bores you when you are twenty or thirty will open doors for you when you are forty or fifty - and vise versa. Don’t read a book out of its right time for you.

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

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.

I am so happy to be communicating with people on this newest of new wavelengths which to some older people must seem like a kind of magic.

In university they don't tell you that the greater part of the law is learning to tolerate fools.