It oughtn't to need a war to make us talk to each other in buses, and invent our own amusements in the evenings, and live simply, and eat sparingly, and recover the use of our legs, and get up early enough to see the sun rise.

Words were the only net to catch a mood, the only sure weapon against oblivion.

how much of the fun of parenthood lay in watching the children remake, with delighted wonder, one's own discoveries.

When there is a world scarcity of any commodity, whether it's food or free speech, then the whole world must go on rations in order that eventually the whole world may have it again in plenty.

librarianship is one of the few callings in the world for which is it still possible to feel unqualified admiration and respect.

To be put down in this world, and given only eighty years to get to know it in, is like being let loose in the United States of America for the first time with a high-powered car and unlimited gasoline - but with a visa that is valid for only a week. It's agonizing, that's what it is.

One is what one remembers: no more, no less.