I wasn't inspired so much by a person as by reading many good books. I loved to write and I wondered if I might be able to write material that others would enjoy reading.

Fear that comes from personal experience is far more real than fear based on someone else's ordeal.

Guests are people who come to your home to see you whine at the table, bark loudly, jump on women wearing pantyhose, and do other tricks which you wouldn't think of doing just for the family.

Books had taught me new ideas and had shown me ways of life that I would not have known about otherwise, and they offered a refuge when, like now, real life seemed too hard.

I am more one for the story, I think, than the action.

But if home suddenly becomes not like home, what then?

So lonely 'twas that God himself scarce seemed there to be.

The reader need not be told that John Bull never leaves home without encumbering himself with the greatest possible load of luggage. Our companions were no exception to the rule.

The truth is, that the military people are so important to our country.

Music is going to break the way because music is in a spiritual thing of its own. It's like the waves of the ocean. You can't just cut out the perfect wave and take it home with you.

I really don't miss the trials and courtroom appearances.

The accusation is always on the first page, and the retraction on page 19.

How can you defame mud when such a beautiful flower grows from it?

New facts often trigger new ideas