The world is full of people who have never, since childhood, met an open doorway with an open mind.

The so-called science of poll-taking is not a science at all but mere necromancy. People are unpredictable by nature, and although you can take a nation's pulse, you can't be sure that the nation hasn't just run up a flight of stairs.

I admire anybody who has the guts to write anything at all.

All writing is communication; creative writing is communication through revelation-it is the Self-escaping into the open.

We should all do what, in the long run, gives us joy, even if it is only picking grapes or sorting the laundry.

I’ve got a new friend, all right. But what a gamble friendship is! Charlotte is fierce, brutal, scheming, bloodthirsty—everything I don’t like. How can I learn to like her, even though she is pretty and, of course, clever?

Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than in a whole one.