Not everyone is a debtor who wishes to be; not everyone who wishes makes creditors.
Girls are infinitely more complicated than boys, and women more than men.
And the walls became the world all around.
And it is through fantasy that children achieve catharsis. It is the best means they have for taming wild things.
Children do live in fantasy and reality; they move back and forth very easily in a way we no longer remember how to do.
Once a little boy sent me a charming card with a little drawing on it. I loved it. I answer all my children’s letters — sometimes very hastily — but this one I lingered over. I sent him a card and I drew a picture of a Wild Thing on it. I wrote, “Dear Jim: I loved your card. ” Then I got a letter back from his mother and she said, “Jim loved your card so much he ate it. ” That to me was one of the highest compliments I’ve ever received. He didn’t care that it was an original Maurice Sendak drawing or anything. He saw it, he loved it, he ate it.
I wish you all good things. Live your life, live your life, live your life.
I don't believe in inspiration. I believe in work, because while one works one's creativity is opened.
The young man who has the combination of the learning of books with the learning which comes of doing things with the hands need not worry about getting along in the world today, or at any time.
Dreams must be heeded and accepted. For a great many of them come true.
The way you succeed at all this stuff is by stopping trying to succeed and just working very hard without thinking about it, just trusting, completely. It's that faith that creates the bridge on which you walk across to eternity.