Here was one place where I could find out who I was and what I was going to become. And that was the public library.

The things I write are for those who are willing to accept a new relationship between the reader and the author.

I look back into past history, the stored experiences or products of the imagination. I look no further forward than the evening.

The principle of art is to pause, not bypass.

Chance was to work in the garden, where he would care for plants and grasses and trees which grew there peacefully. He would be as one on them: quiet, open hearted in the sunshine and heavy when it rained.

I am curious about grownups, not children.

The planned sit-down reception is an artificial forum where one is presented with a limited number of persons with whom he can hold a conversation.