Admitting failure is quite cleansing, but never - pleasurable.

It is the child's understanding that teaches the adults the way of the future. They're still doing it today with modern technology.

It's good to focus on the universal suffering that goes on in any war. Whatever the right and wrongs of the war, there is always universal suffering.

A notion for a story is for me a confluence of real events, historical perhaps, or from my own memory to create an exciting fusion.

But I didn’t dare. That has always been my trouble. I’ve never dared enough.

Books that kids read should be about what is going on in the world.

I can hate you more, but I'll never love you less.