“the dance ritual never ended, The small children just sat down one by one as they got tired.”

“A novel is more a symphony, opera, oratorio. It exists in time, it goes by you a sound dying out as you write on, so that it is very hard to keep in touch with the whole thing...”

“Change happens very slow and very sudden.”

“You have only to want it,to believe it, and tonight when you close your eyes, you can begin your journey”

“Like an old gold-panning prospector, you must resign yourself to digging up a lot of sand from which you will later patiently wash out a few minute particles of gold ore.”

“The best way to keep children at home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant, and let the air out of the tires.”

“The passive and overt violence waged against the women and children of the world must end.”