memory is so selective; wishful thinking presses it into service all the time.

Marriage is what happens when one at least of the partners doesn't want the other to get away.

What makes women happy? Nothing, for more than ten minutes at a time, so stop worrying.

Truly Alice, books are wonderful things; to sit alone in a room and laugh and cry, because you are reading, and still be safe when you close the book; and having finished it, discover you are changed, yet unchanged! To be able to visit the City of Invention at will, depart at will – that is all, really, education is about, should be about.

Only one thing registers on the subconscious mind: repetitive application - practice. What you practice is what you manifest.

Novelists... fashioning nets to sustain and support the reader as he falls helplessly through the chaos of his own existence.

As it has turned out, the whole relationship between men, women and children has tilted, to the disadvantage of women.