Jealousy is no more than feeling alone against smiling enemies.
children like change - for one thing, they never anticipate regret.
The child lives in the book; but just as much the book lives in the child.
[My early stories] are the work of a living writer whom I know in a sense, but can never meet.
... a novel survives because of its basic truthfulness, its having within it something general and universal, and a quality of imaginative perception which applies just as much now as it did in the fifty or hundred or two hundred years since the novel came to life.
I can't see or feel the conflict between love and religion. To me, they're the same thing.