“There may be no more pleasing picture in the world than that of a child peering into a book - the past and the future entrancing each other.”

“Do not keep company with people who speak of careers. Not only are such people uninteresting in themselves; they also have no interest in anything interesting. . . . Keep company with people who are interested in the world outside themselves. The one who never asks you what you are working on; who never inquires as to the success of your latest project; who never uses the word career as a noun -- he is your friend.”

“A library should be like a pair of open arms.”

“I'm going to kill Fairy Tale Dora and my little dog too.”

“Children love to be alone because alone is where they know themselves and where they dream.”

“Why do we write?"To make suffering endurableTo make evil intelligibleTo make justice desirableand . . . to make love possible”

“The reader brings to the work personality traits, memories of past events, present needs and preoccupations, a particular mood of the moment and a particular physical condition. These and many other elements in a never-to-be-duplicated combination determine his response to the text.”