All colors made me happy: even gray. My eyes were such that literally they Took photographs.

Revelation can be more perilous than Revolution.

A good laugh is the best pesticide.

There are some varieties of fiction that I never touch - mystery stories, for instance, which I abhor, and historical novels. I also detest the so-called "powerful" novel - full of commonplace obscenities and torrents of dialog.

I grew, a happy, healthy child in a bright world of illustrated books, clean sand, orange trees, friendly dogs, sea vistas and smiling faces.

It is strange that the tactile sense, which is so infinitely less precious to men than sight, becomes at critical moments our main, if not only, handle to reality.

The writer's job is to get the main character up a tree, and then once they are up there, throw rocks at them.