Every time a child, any child, is born, it is new - and different; that is the wonder.

As one gets older being sad and miserable can become a bit of a habit. To counteract this, she suggests making a point of savoring such things as the tastiness of a piece of fruit, or other small things we might have been prone to overlook during our younger, busier days.

For an author nothing is as dead as a book once it is written.

if you think you know, you don't ask questions, or if you ask, you don't listen to the answers. Everyone, everything, each thing, is different, so that it isn't safe to know. You - you have to grope.

Every time a child, any child, is born, it is new - and different; that is the wonder.

If books were Persian carpets, one would not look only at the outer side. because it is the stitch that makes a carpet wear, gives it its life and bloom.

in California I began to think that, except on the beaches, no-one had the use of their legs.