Just because the person who criticizes you is an idiot doesn't make him wrong.

If the sad truth be known, writers, being the misfits we are, probably ought not to belong to families in the first place. We simply are too self-interested, though we may excuse the flaw by calling it 'focused.'

Children love to be alone because alone is where they know themselves, and where they dream.

A library should be like a pair of open arms.

When you have the goods, you don't need to dress up what you're writing.

The Constitution is more than literature, but as literature, it is primarily a work of the imagination. It imagined a country: fantastic. More fantastic still, it imagined a country full of people imagining themselves.

Every writing teacher gives the subliminal message, every time they teach: 'Your life counts for something.' In no other subject that I know of is that message given.