“You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.”

“A book, too, can be a star, a living fire to lighten the darkness, leading out into the expanding universe.”

“Euripedes. Nothing is hopeless; we must hope for everything.”

“Qui plussait, plus se tait. French, you know. The more a man knows, the less he talks.”