In reading we must become creators.

Love can't be pinned down by a definition, and it certainly can't be proved, any more than anything else important in life can be proved.

We do not love each other without changing each other.

When the bright angel dominates, out comes a great work of art, a Michelangelo David or a Beethoven symphony.

The only way to cope with something deadly serious is to try to treat it a little lightly.

I am still every age that I have been. Because I was once a child, I am always a child. Because I was once a searching adolescent, given to moods and ecstasies, these are still part of me, and always will be.

A book comes and says, 'Write me.