Find your quiet center of life and write from that to the world.

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.

War is always a contest of words as well as of wounds.

Well, why not just snap my damn olive branch and beat me with it? I was only trying to help.

Stay I whisper to him. Stay in the car. Stay in this moment. But of course he never does.

summer is in me—clouds and lakes of shadows, rippling under the trees

Without prayer, without faith in the Almighty, the civil rights movement would have been like a bird without wings.

If Bill Gates woke up with Oprah's money he'd jump out the window.

If you ever manage to make a fool of me, I'll deserve what I get.

At 28, you need recovery time after training.

I started writing for the theatre because I hated it.

Too many men are afraid of being fools.