. . . What do you wish to be? What would you like to become?” I did not know, and I told her so, but the question worried me. Should I know? “There is time,” she said, “but the sooner you know, the sooner you can plan. To have a goal is the important thing, and to work toward it. Then, if you decide you wish to do something different, you will at least have been moving, you will have been going somewhere, you will have been learning.

Adventure is nothing but a romantic name for trouble.

Once you have read a book you care about, some part of it is always with you.

One thing has always been true: That book or that person who can give me an idea or a new slant on an old idea is my friend.

The thieves and killers are goin' to have guns, so if the honest men don't have 'em they just make it easier for the vicious.

I do not think much of ages. People are people. What does it matter how old or young they are? It is a category, and I do not like categories. It is a sort of pigeonhole or a label.

I fear there will be no future for those who do not change.