We dress them [children] in the presumptions of the world. They are the bright small face of hope. They are the last belief we have, the belief in making them believe.

We dress them [children] in the presumptions of the world. They are the bright small face of hope. They are the last belief we have, the belief in making them believe.

The Shadow had no imagination. He neither looked at naked women nor thought of ridding the world of dictators like Hitler or Mussolini.

I thought I would lose, so I didn't prepare a speech.

I've known several cases of writers who decide to write about something and they research the hell out of it and when they're ready to write, they can't move because they are so burdened. I start writing. Whatever I need somehow comes to hand.

It proposed that human beings, by the act of making witness, warranted times and places for their existence other than the time and place they were living through.

It was evident to him that the world composed and recomposed itself constantly in an endless process of dissatisfaction.