We can't live alone in any society. But the best way to help a society or group, is to be the best individual in it that we can be.

Kids love me because I write stories that tell them about their capacity for evil. I'm one of the few writers who lets you cleanse yourself that way.

Out in the world not much happened. But here in the special night, a land bricked with paper and leather anything might happen, always did.

We have everything we need to be happy but we aren't happy. Something is missing... It is not books you need, it's some of the things that are in books. The magic is only in what books say, how they stitched the patches of the universe together into one garment for us.

For John was running, and this was terrible. Because if you ran, time ran. You yelled and screamed and raced and rolled and tumbled and all of a sudden the sun was gone and the whistle was blowing and you were on your long way home to supper. When you weren't looking, the sun got around behind you! The only way to keep things slow was to watch everything and do nothing! You could stretch a day to three days, sure, just by watching!

Once the automobile appeared you could have predicted that it would destroy as many people as it did.

That country whose people are autumn people, thinking only autumn thoughts.