Childhood, after all, is not an ending, but rather a state full of potent curiosity.

As writers go, I have a skin of average thickness. I am pleased by a good review, disappointed by a bad. None of it penetrates far enough to influence the thing I write next.

Christianity has kept itself going for centuries on hope alone, and has perpetrated all manner of naughtiness in the meantime.

Childhood, after all, is not an ending, but rather a state full of potent curiosity.

We who were born were not witnesses to our birth: like death, it is something we are forever after trying to catch sight of.

A sentence is born into this world neither good nor bad, and that to establish its character is a question of the subtlest possible adjustments, a process of intuition to which exaggeration and force are fatal.

I absolutely don't dislike children - I would choose their company over adult company any time.