Read a lot, live your life, and listen and watch, so that your mind fills up with millions of images.

Each child brings so much joy and hope into the world, and that is reason enough for being here. As you grow older, you will contribute something else to this world, and only you can discover what that is.

Man needs bread and hyacinths: one to feed the body, and one to feed the soul.

When I read good stories, I want to write good stories too.

You know, maybe that's all anybody wants, is to be useful. And have somebody else notice it.

I started thinking about life insurance and how nice it would be if you could get insurance that your life would be happy, and that everyone you knew could be happy, and they could all do what they really wanted to do, and they could all find the people they wanted to find.

I don't want to because boys don't write poetry. Girls do.