One of the most obvious facts about grownups to a child is that they have forgotten what it is like to be a child.

The climate of our culture is changing. Under these new rains, new suns, small things grow great, and what was great grows small; whole species disappear and are replaced.

The people who live in a golden age usually go around complaining how yellow everything looks.

I think that one possible definition of our modern culture is that it is one in which nine-tenths of our intellectuals can't read any poetry.

I decided that Europeans and Americans are like men and women: they understand each other worse, and it matters less, than either of them suppose.

Say what you like, but such things do happen - not often, but they do happen.

The ways we miss our lives are life.