"Marriage is socialism among two people."

"Experimental science is fascinating, but I don't want to do it. I want other people to do it, and I'll read about it."

"The secret of the truly successful, I believe, is that they learned very early in life how not to be busy. They saw through that adage, repeated to me so often in childhood, that anything worth doing is worth doing well."

"The one regret I have about my own abortions is that they cost money that might otherwise have been spent on something more pleasurable, like taking the kids to movies and theme parks."

"Great nations write their autobiographies in three manuscripts - the book of their deeds, the book of their words and the book of their art."

"The decision to write in prose instead of poetry is made more by the readers than by writers. Almost no one is interested in reading narrative in verse."

"When written in Chinese the word crisis is composed of two characters. One represents danger and the other represents opportunity."

"I write for children because I am interested in fantasy and the possibilities for experience of all kinds before the time of compromise. I believe that children are far more perceptive and wise than American books give them credit for being."