What A Child Doesn't Receive He Can

It Is Surely Unreasonable To Credit That Only One Small Star In The Immensity Of The Universe Is Capable Of Developing And Supporting Intelligent Life. But We Shall Not Get To Them And They Will Not Come To Us.

I Learned Early And At That Kitchen Table That There Are Ways Of Avoiding, Without Guilt, The Commitments Of Love.

Open Your Mind To New Experiences, Particularly To The Study Of Other ­people. Nothing That Happens To A Writer – However Happy, However Tragic – Is Ever Wasted.

Every Island To A Child Is A Treasure Island.

A Picnic May Well Be A Metaphor For Life. The Essentials For Happiness Are The Right Company, Moderate If Sanguine Expectations And A Reasonable Standard Of Physical Sustenance And Comfort, The Whole Being Bedeviled By The Belief That There Is Always Something Better To Be Had If Only One Presses On.