Development, it turns out, occurs through this process of progressively more complex exchange between a child and somebody else- especially somebody who’s crazy about that child

Every child needs at least one adult who is irrationally crazy about him or her.

No society can long sustain itself unless its members have learned the sensitivities, motivations and skills involved in assisting and caring for other human beings.

There is no more critical indicator of the future of a society than the character, competence, and integrity of its youth.

Particular attention should be given to the opportunities which the environment presents or precludes for involvement of children with persons both older and younger than themselves.

Fiction is the truth inside the lie.

We are ever brutal to those who love and serve us in silence, but the time may come when, for our cruelty, we shall be deserted by these best friends of ours.

No sooner is there a good thing in the world, than a division is necessary.

What does reason know? Reason only knows what it has succeeded in learning.

Condemn me if you choose - I do that myself, - but condemn me, and not the path which I am following, and which I point out to those who ask me where, in my opinion, the path is.

Never, ever condescend to the reader. Assume you are writing for someone better and smarter than you are. This will protect you from conventionalism, faddishness, and cliché.

The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy - give one and take ten

If you let too many cooks in the kitchen it could cloud your vision of what you want to do.

I like sneakers. I guess I could call myself a collector.

I never believed that Israel had the right to exist at all.