One of the luckiest things that can happen to you in life is I think to have a happy childhood.

I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.

Evil is not something superhuman, it's something less than human.

There is nothing more thrilling in this world, I think, than having a child that is yours, and yet is mysteriously a stranger.