Don't scatter your fire! You are a prose writer: stick to your own tool!

Tact is after all a kind of mind reading.

Look bravely up into the sky, And be content with knowing That God wished for a buttercup Just here, where you are growing.

My childhood is very vivid to me, and I don't feel very different now from the way I felt then. It would appear I am the very same person, only with wrinkles.

A story should be managed so that it should suggest interesting things to the reader instead of the author's doing all the thinking for him, and setting it before him in black and white.

The growth of true friendship may be a lifelong affair.

I've found that people who look at things as they are, and not as they wish them to be, are the ones who succeed.

It seems to me like stealing, for men and women to live in the world and do nothing to make it better.

When she walked...she stretched out long and thin like a little tiger, and held her head high to look over the grass as if she were treading the jungle.

The warm sun kissed the earthTo consecrate thy birth,And from his close embraceThy radiant faceSprang into sight,A blossoming delight.

In the life of each of us there is a place remote and islanded, and given to endless regret or secret happiness.

All evil begins with this belief: that another’s existence is less precious than mine.

Often the question of, "Who am I?" should be answered with, "Whose am I?

You can have your titular recognition. I'll take money and power.

I just have a hard time displaying things.

This much I'm sure of. Chances for winning = 1 - (# of math students playing)/ (# of math students cheering). That's a fraction.

Nobody knows the trouble I've seen: even less, the trouble I've successfully avoided.

The ideal society has yet to be built - one which balances nicely collective well-being and individual well-being.

She's like a wind-up monkey that winds itself.

The hardest animal was the vulture. But the horses were great, the dog was great [in Valley of Violence]. It was really easy.

You can have an impact anywhere you are.