The important thing of any time you live in is to be in love yourself. You float above your time then. It's what you want that counts, not what your time wants.

When I graduated from high school, it was during the Depression and we had no money.

I don't talk things, sir. I talk the meaning of things.

In my later years I have looked in the mirror each day and found a happy person staring back. Occasionally I wonder why I can be so happy. The answer is that every day of my life I've worked only for myself and for the joy that comes from writing and creating. The image in my mirror is not optimistic, but the result of optimal behavior.

The merry-go-round was running, yes, but... It was running backward. The small calliope inside the carousel machinery rattle-snapped its nervous-stallion shivering drums, clashed its harvest-moon cymbals, toothed its castanets, and throatily choked and sobbed its reeds, whistles, and baroque flutes.

I feel like I own all the kids in the world because, since I've never grown up myself, all my books are automatically for children.

We're all watching each other, so there's no chance for censorship. The main problem is the idiot TV. If you watch local news, your head will turn to mush.