All I can do is write my stories for mankind, and rest easy.

Of course if you like your kids, if you love them from the moment they begin, you yourself begin all over again, in them, with them, and so there is something more to the world again.

Kids are always the only future the human race has.

I never knew teachers are human beings like everybody else-- and better too!

I'm not the kind of guy to knock at a door and then when the door is opened not go in.

Babies who have not yet been taught to speak any language are the only race of the earth, the race of man: all the rest is pretence, what we call civilization, hatred, fear, desire for strength.

San Francisco itself is art, above all literary art. Every block is a short story, every hill a novel. Every home a poem, every dweller within immortal. That is the whole truth.