The bank - the monster has to have profits all the time. It can't wait. It'll die. No, taxes go on. When the monster stops growing, it dies. It can't stay one size.

These words dropped into my childish mind as if you should accidentally drop a ring into a deep well. I did not think of them much at the time, but there came a day in my life when the ring was fished up out of the well, good as new.

If we could learn even a little to like ourselves, maybe our cruelties and angers might melt away.

He was born in Bercy on the outskirts of Paris and trained in France, and while he knows a little Poodle-English, he responds quickly only to commands in French. Otherwise he has to translate, and that slows him down.

Man has become our greatest hazard, and our only hope.

I have written a great many stories and I still don't know how to go about it except to write it and take my chances.

Sometimes when she was alone, and she knew she was alone, she permitted her mind to play in a garden, and she smiled.