My first job was working in a dress shop in Los Angeles in 1940, for $7 a week.

Freedom is a public library.

I've always known a lot of very bad people, destructive, brutes of a certain kind. Then I've seen these lovely impulses and what not, and they've stayed with me and comforted me.

The minute you become conscious that you are doing good, that's the minute you have to stop because from then on it's wrong.

I like to cook; it is, for me, a happy combination of mindlessness and purpose.

When you read to a child, when you put a book in a child's hands, you are bringing that child news of the infinitely varied nature of life. You are an awakener.

You'll see some bad things, but if you didn't see them, they'd still be happening.