The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but you don't change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion.

A simple grateful thought turned heavenwards is the most perfect prayer.

There are no laws for the novel. There never have been, nor can there ever be.

I never stopped reading.

I treasure solitude. One doesn't have to have human contact.

Parents should leave books lying around marked "forbidden" if they want their children to read.

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