Everything takes me longer than I expect. It's the sad truth about life.

Children love secret club houses. They love secrecy even when there's no need for secrecy.

For a novelist to create character, I think, takes a sharp objective eye but also an intuitive intelligence, a receptiveness, a wilingness to make oneself blan…

Children have very sharp powers of observation - probably sharper than adults - yet at the same time their emotional reactions are murky and much more primitiv…

There are ideal series of events which run parallel with the real ones. They rarely coincide. Men and circumstances generally modify the ideal train of events,…

But my dear, so few things are fulfilled: what are most lives but a series of incomplete episodes

They do not live in the world, Are not in time and space. From birth to death hurled No word do they have, not one To plant a foot upon, Were never in any plac…