A book is a book is a book.
Good books get praised, bad books get praised. Good books get ignored, bad books get ignored
What can we make of the inexpressible joy of children? It is a kind of gratitude, I think—the gratitude of the ten-year-old who wakes to her own energy and the brisk challenge of the world. You thought you knew the place and all its routines, but y...
As heirs to a legacy more than two centuries old, it is understandable why present-day Americans would take their own democracy for granted. A president freely chosen from a wide-open field of two men every four years; a Congress with a 99% incumbenc...
He is quiet and small, he is black From his ears to the tip of his tail; He can creep through the tiniest crack He can walk on the narrowest rail. He can pick any card from a pack, He is equally cunning with dice; He is always deceiving you into beli...
Amy hated--hated--the way the grown-ups her parents had surrounded themselves with were so quick to offer prayers and so low to actually do anything. Old women who barely left the house for anything but bingo and congratulated themselves on never dri...
Some people create war and misery, some create wealth and money, and some create ideas and art. But we all create our own deaths, fashioned out of our lives. Nobody will remember how you died, if nobody remembers how you lived. Forgoing freak acciden...
I do enjoy writing, and I hope someone gets something interesting out of this book. I already have. Now, If I ever have to write a book that is not about me, I may be totally stumped and have writer's block. We will see. Writing is very convenient, h...
The young cannot teach tradition to the old.
What is new is pleasing and what is old is satisfying.
The house with an old grandparent harbors a jewel.
An old rat won't go into the trap.
The young may die, the old must.
A surgeon should be young a physician old.
An old broom knows the corners of the house.
An old cat likes young mice.
An old enemy never becomes a friend.
All old sayings have something in them.
As the old cock crows the young cock learns.
The old pipe gives the sweetest smoke.
An old chicken makes tasty soup.
