However deep our devotion may be to parents or to children, it is our contemporaries alone with whom understanding is instinctive and entire.

The joys of motherhood are not excessively apparent during the first few weeks of a baby's life.

Venice is all sea and sculpture.

An author who waits for the right 'mood' will soon find that 'moods' get fewer and fewer until they cease altogether.

However deep our devotion may be to parents or to children, it is our contemporaries alone with whom understanding is instinctive and entire.

If the would-be writer studies people in their everyday lives and discovers how to make his characters in their quieter moods interesting to his readers, he will have learned far more than he can ever learn from the constant presentation of crises.

I can think of few important movements for reform in which success was won by any method other than that of an energetic minority presenting the indifferent majority with a fait accompli, which was then accepted.