Hungry ears are sharp ones.

Respect and fear are two different things.

A child who is protected from all controversial ideas is as vulnerable as a child who is protected from every germ. The infection, when it comes- and it will come- may overwhelm the system, be it the immune system or the belief system.

Sinclair Lewis may be ripe for a revival; his books raise several interesting issues of art and fashion.

I have reared, or helped to rear, five children and the scariest bit, bar none, is the learning to drive part. It has filled me with anxiety not only about the children, but also about my former self and my friends.

A novelist is on the cusp between someone who knows everything and someone who knows nothing.

There is something I have noticed about desire, that it opens the eyes and strikes them blind at the same time.