I suspect victims; they win in the long run.

All my life I have said, "Whatever happens there will always be tables and chairs"--and what a mistake.

very young people are true but not resounding instruments.

Experience isn't interesting until it begins to repeat itself. In fact, till it does that, it hardly is experience.

[My early stories] are the work of a living writer whom I know in a sense, but can never meet.

children like change - for one thing, they never anticipate regret.

What is being said is the effect of something that has happened; at the same time, what is being said is in itself something happening, which will, in turn, leave its effect.