I do not believe in a child world. It is a fantasy world. I believe the child should be taught from the very first that the whole world is his world, that adult and child share one world, that all generations are needed.

What is a neglected child? He is a child not planned for, not wanted. Neglect begins, therefore, before he is born.

No writer, I believe, should attempt a novel before he is thirty, and not then unless he has been hopelessly and helplessly involved in life. For the writer who goes out to find material for a novel, as a fishermen goes out to sea to fish, will certainly not write a good novel. Life has to be lived thoughtlessly, unconsciously, at full tilt and for no purpose except its own sake before it becomes, eventually, good material for a novel.

Believing in gods always causes confusion.

It is good to know our universe. What is new is only new to us.

Praise out of season, or tactlessly bestowed, can freeze the heart as much as blame.

Men would rather be starving and free than fed in bonds.