To refuse to respond is in itself a response.

People become trustworthy when they are trusted.

When we lose our myths we lose our place in the universe.

To refuse to respond is in itself a response.

I used to feel guilty about spending morning hours working on a book; about fleeing to the brook in the afternoon. It took several summers of being totally frazzled by September to make me realize that this was a false guilt. I'm much more use to family and friends when I'm not physically and spiritually depleted than when I spend my energies as though they were unlimited. They are not. The time at the typewriter and the time at the brook refresh me and put me into a more workable perspective.

Wild nights are my glory!

You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.