Writing history and biography for kids calls for special skills that can only be acquired through practice and that are different from those required for an adult audience.

I think that today's books, in which every quote, every conversation, is taken from a memoir, an autobiography, an interview, or what-have-you, are much more convincing.

Man is often the prisoner of the culture he lives in. Question your culture to break the prison doors! Question it so that you can be able to see the incredible stupidities in your culture!

She wanted to cause him pain for taking a place in her heart she wouldn't have given him if she'd known the truth.

To be "modern" means refusing to worry about where the benefits of progress actually come from.

Liberty is not something a government gives you. It is a right that no government can legally take away.

I'm the slowest driver in the world.

It seems strange to think, that what gives us most hope for the future should be called Dolores, said Margaret.

People think that the directors direct actors. No. Really, what the director's doing is directing the audience's eye through the film.

Shrapnel was invented by an Englishman of the same name. Don't you wish you could have something named after you?

On adultery: "Why fool around with hamburger when you have steak at home?

You can handle anything if you think you can. Just keep your cool and your sense of humor.