Shakespeare, Dickens, Mark Twain, and so many others were my dearest friends and greatest teachers.

...righteousness [is] always more believable when combined with dreariness.

Hope is an essential thread in the fabric of all fantasies, an Ariadne's thread to guide us out of the labyrinth ... Human beings have always needed hope, and surely now more than ever.

The only thing a cat worries about is what's happening right now. As we tell the kittens, you can only wash one paw at a time.

She has given you something of value: the truth in her heart.

It was 1943. The U.S. had already entered World War II, so I decided to join the army.

Indeed, the more we find to love, the more we add to the measure of our hearts.