A Good Library Can Provide The Furniture

The Great Question, Is There Anything At All Which Is Worth Fighting Such A War About, With The Devastating Loss It Will Bring? I Believe Yes, There Are Some Freedoms Which To Sacrifice Would Be Even Worse.

I Think It's A Terrible Thing To Write And Not Enjoy It. It's A Sad Thing. But Of Course A Lot Of People Do Work Because They Need To Eat. And We All Need To Eat, But That's Not The Only Reason To Work. You Couldn't Have Paid Me Not To Write.

A Good Library Can Provide The Furniture Of Our Minds And The Threads From Which We Weave Our Dreams.

To Take For Granted One's Blessings Is A Damage To The Soul, And In Time One Will Lose Them, Simply From Lack Of Care. One Should Never Tire Of Nourishing And Treasuring All That Is Lovely.

I Was Born In London, England, In 1938, A Few Months Before The War, And Spent The First Years Of My Life There, Although I Was Evacuated A Couple Of Times For Short Periods. My Schooling Was Very Interrupted, Both By Frequent Moves And By Ill Health.