Children are the best living audience in the world because they are so thoroughly honest.

I know that if there’s a purpose for life, it was for me to hear Mozart.

If life is so critical, if Anne Frank could die, if my friend could die, children were as vulnerable as adults, and that gave me a secret purpose to my work, to make them live. Because I wanted to live. I wanted to grow up.

I'd like to believe an accumulation of experience has made me a sort of a grown-up person, so I can have judgment and taste and whatever.

What is the point of it all? Not leaving legacies. But being ripe. Being ripe.

Thank God that Bumble-Ardy's parents are dead so we don't have to wonder what they did to him. We only know that they were famous, and famous people have unhappy children for the most part. They don't have the time to take care of them. So he's a troubled pig-boy, a kid you've got to watch.

I hate those e-books. They can not be the future... they may well be... I will be dead.