As a man lives and thinks, so he will write.

Love has no age, no limit; and no death.

I am still under the impression that there is nothing alive quite so beautiful as a thoroughbred horse.

Not the least hard thing to bear when they go from us, these quiet friends, is that they carry away with them so many years of our own lives.

Life calls the tune, we dance.

I think the greatest thing in the world is to believe in people.

By the cigars they smoke, and the composers they love, ye shall know the texture of men's souls.

If you do not think about the future, you cannot have one.

Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.

Honesty of thought and speech and written word is a jewel, and they who curb prejudice and seek honorably to know and speak the truth are the only builders of a better life.

Beginnings are always messy.

Money is a kind of freedom that can be felt and heard

Sometimes, staying alive solely depends on keeping your head in place and your senses alert

It should surprise no one that the life of the writer - such as it is - is colorless to the point of sensory deprivation. Many writers do little else but sit in small rooms recalling the real world.

A child's nature is too serious a thing to admit of its being regarded as a mere appendage to another being.

As far as writing, it's grown because I've really grown comfortable with who I am.

Hee pays too deare for honey that licks it from thornes.

When you're hot, it's fair, when you're not, it's foul.

Don't try to anticipate an ideal reader - or any reader. He/she might exist - but is reading someone else.

Civil disobedience is the assertion of a right which law should give but which it denies.

The great American novel has not only already been written, it has already been rejected.