I don't regard Jews as a class. I regard them as a privileged misfortune.

The people of England will curse themselves for having preferred ruin from Churchill to peace from Hitler.

His life was a book of his own writing, one orderly page after another.

I did not win and in fact I was called into the principal's office for a consultation with my parents. But that was the beginning of my literary career.

Their toys are alive and can sometimes come to their aid, or get lost and Olie has to find them. They go to other planets. They go to the ice cream planet.

And I was lucky enough to have teachers that really, really looked out for me and really encouraged all that. And in rural Louisiana, that was a rare thing back then.

The possibilities were endless. Battles would be fought. Wonders revealed. Many journeys. Many lands. Many joys. Many sorrows. But stories all...