To your generation, I must represent the literary equivalent of tufted furniture and gas chandeliers.

And you'll sit beside me, and we'll look, not at visions, but at realities.

I want to put my hand out and touch you. I want to do for you and care for you. I want to be there when you're sick and when you're lonesome.

After all, one knows one's weak points so well, that it's rather bewildering to have the critics overlook them and invent others.

She gave so many reasons that I've forgotten them all.

I was never allowed to read the popular American children's books of my day because, as my mother said, the children spoke bad English without the author's knowing it.

One can remain alive ... if one is unafraid of change, insatiable in intellectual curiosity interested in big things and happy in small ways.