Youth goes caparisoned in immortality.

Ambition, if it were to be savored, let alone achieved, had to be rooted in possibility.

What a child doesn't receive he can seldom later give.

Children live in occupied territory. The brave and the foolhardy openly rebel against authority, whether harsh or benign. But most tread warily, outwardly accommodating themselves to alien mores and edicts while living in secret their iconoclastic and subversive lives.

Don't just plan to write - write. It is only by writing, not dreaming about it, that we develop our own style.

Charm is often despised but I can never see why. No one has it who isn't capable of genuinely liking others, at least at the actual moment of meeting and speaking. Charm is always genuine; it may be superficial but it isn't false.

the most successful marriages were always based on both partners feeling that they had done rather well for themselves.