That's the secret of how to enjoy writing and how to make yourself meet high standards," said Mrs. Berman. "You don't write for the whole world, and you don't write for ten people, or two. You write for just one person.

Humor is an almost physiological response to fear.

I wish we had all been born birds instead.

The primary benefit of practicing any art, whether well or badly, is that it enables one's soul to grow.

The triumph of anything is a matter of organization.

As for myself: I had come to the conclusion that there was nothing sacred about myself or about any human being, that we were all machines, doomed to collide and collide and collide.

The death of a library, any library, suggests that the community has lost its soul.