“There are many little ways to enlarge your child's world. Love of books is the best of all.”

“You have only one chance to raise your child.”

“The first time you marry for love, the second for money, and the third for companionship.”

“If you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do matters very much.”

“What is sad for women of my generation is that they weren't supposed to work if they had families. What were they going to do when the children are grown - watch the raindrops coming down the windo...”

“The children have been a wonderful gift to me, and I'm thankful to have once again seen our world through their eyes. They restore my faith in the family's future.”

“How little our careers express what lies in us, and yet how much time they take up. It's sad, really.”

“Tell the truth through whichever veil comes to hand but tell it. Resign yourself to the lifelong sadness that comes from never being satisfied.”

“What a sad story, I thought for so long. Not that I now think it was happy. But I think it is true, and thus the question of whether it is sad or happy has no meaning whatever.”

“...if you've got writer's block, you aren't empty - maybe it's just like Twitter - overwhelmed, and loading seems to be taking a while...”

“...if you've got writer's block, you aren't empty - maybe it's just like Twitter - overwhelmed, and loading seems to be taking a while...”

“One must not trifle with love.”

“Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed.”

“In science, we must be interested in things, not in persons.”