Quotes by : William Steig

He began to develop an obstinate patience.

He was able to love them again, but he loved them now in a wiser way, knowing their weakness.

The stubbornness of his character stood him now in good stead. He refused to consider himself defeated.....

Oh, Life, I am yours. Whatever it is you want of me, I am ready to give.

Why had he wanted to be rich, or to feel rich? Was he an unhappy mouse before? Didn't he see the King....

Why did the world go on being so beautiful in spite of the ugliness he had experienced? The lake was....

I wish I were a rock,' he said, and he became a rock.

The world was all magic, and he had a special bottle of it in his right hand.

Rain caused one to reflect on the shadowed, more poignant parts of life—the inescapable sorrows, the....