There are plenty of clever young writers. But there is too much genius, not enough talent.

To show a child what once delighted you, to find the child's delight added to your own - this is happiness.

We are members of one body. We are responsible for each other.

If there is one thing left that I would like to do, it's to write something really beautiful. And I could do it, you know. I could still do it.

I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps a bit of magic waiting somewhere behind the morning.

A loving wife will do anything for her husband except stop criticizing him and trying to improve him.

It had the old double keyboard, an entirely different set of keys for capitals and figures, so that the paper seemed a long way off, and the machine was as big and solid as a battle cruiser. Typing was then a muscular activity. You could ache after it. If you were not familiar with those vast keyboards, your hand wandered over them like a child lost in a wood. The noise might have been that of a shipyard on the Clyde. You would no more have thought of carrying one of those grim structures as you would have thought of travelling with a piano.