Beethoven for listening; Liszt, Chopin, and Beethoven for playing as well as Bach and Prokofiev and so on. If I kept going, this list would spiral. It's as wide as literature; in fact, it is probably wider.

Experimental novels are sometimes terribly clever and very seldom read. But the story that appeals to the child sitting on your knee is the one that satisfies the curiosity we all have about what happened then, and then, and then. This is the final restriction put on the technique of telling a story. A basic thing called story is built into the human condition. It's what we are; it's something to which we react.

I think women are foolish to pretend they are equal to men, they are far superior and always have been.

The beast was harmless and horrible; and the news must reach the others as soon as possible.

For a small island [Great Britain], the place is remarkably diverse.

There's a kinship among men who have sat by a dying fire and measured the worth of their life by it.

We did everything adults would do. What went wrong?