“Pleasures are always children, pains always have wrinkles.”

“Children always want to look behind mirrors.”

“Misery is almost always the result of thinking.”

“Children need models rather than critics.”

“Never write anything that does not give you great pleasure. Emotion is easily transferred from the writer to the reader.”

“How many people make themselves abstract to appear profound. The most useful part of abstract terms are the shadows they create to hide a vacuum.”

“The worst thing about new books is that they keep us from reading the old ones.”