We can surely no longer pretend that our children are growing up into a peaceful, secure, and civilized world. We've come to the point where it's irresponsible to try to protect them from the irrational world they will have to live in when they grow up. The children themselves haven't yet isolated themselves by selfishness and indifference; they do not fall easily into the error of despair; they are considerably braver than most grownups. Our responsibility to them is not to pretend that if we don't look, evil will go away, but to give them weapons against it.

I do not think that I will ever reach a stage when I will say, "This is what I believe. Finished." What I believe is alive ... and open to growth

You cannot take credit for your talents. It is what you do with them that counts.

What is self-image? Who started talking about one? I rather fancy it was Madison Avenue.

A life lived in chaos is an impossibility.

If you want to write, you need to keep an honest, unpublishable journal that nobody reads, nobody but you.

Just because we don't understand doesn't mean that the explanation doesn't exist.