It's absolutely fatal to your writing to think about how your work will be received. It's a betrayal of whatever talent you have.

You can't be afraid to do good in case evil results.

Time is change; we measure its passage by how much things alter.

I couldn't be sufficiently interested in human beings to be a writer if I had contempt for human beings.

Writing is making sense of life. You work your whole life and perhaps you've made sense of one small area.

A child understands fear, and the hurt and hate it brings.

When I was a child, we seemed to be living in a world remote from the rest of the world. But television has made a great difference to all of us. If something happens where I live, you see it tomorrow or perhaps even at the same time it is happening there. It's not "one world" in the sense that conflicts are resolved in the world. But we are more one world in that we know what is going on and are psychologically influenced by what goes on around us.