The number of people who expected Mrs. Hutchinson to win a Bendix washer would amaze you.

The first book is the book you have to write to get back at your parents; the book you always had in you. Once you get that out of your way, you can start writing books.

We eat the year away. We eat the spring and the summer and the fall. We wait for something to grow and then we eat it.

I have often thought that with any luck at all I could have been born a werewolf, because the two middle fingers on both my hands are the same length, but I have had to be content with what I had.

February, when the days of winter seem endless and no amount of wistful recollecting can bring back any air of summer.

In ten years I will be a beautiful charming lovely lady writer without any husband or children but lots of lovers and everyone will read the books I write and want to marry me but I will never marry any of them. I will have lots of money and jewels too.

Now, I have nothing against the public school system as it is presently organized, once you allow the humor of its basic assumption about how it is possible to teach things to children.