In our time, when the literature for adults is deteriorating, good books for children are the only hope, the only refuge.

It seems that the analysis of character is the highest human entertainment. And literature does it, unlike gossip, without mentioning names.

A good writer is basically a story teller, not a scholar or a redeemer of mankind.

Sometimes love is stronger than a man's convictions.

What happened was no accident. Everything was preordained. True, the will was free, but heaven also made its ordinances.

The pessimism of the creative person is not decadence but a mighty passion for the redemption of man.

We must believe in free will - we have no choice.