If a person had accused him of meanness, he could have defended himself. But with a dog - you did something cheap to it when you were sure no one was looking, and it was as though you had done it in front of a mirror.

To be human is to be in a story.

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.

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.

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

The density of people in society is so thick that we forget that life will end one day. And we don't know when that one-day will be. So please, tell the people you love and care for that they are special and important. Tell them, before it is too late.

A good novel begins with a small question and ends with a bigger one.