It is beautiful, beautiful to give; one of the very most beautiful things in life.

What a blessing it is to love books.

What a blessing it is to love books. Everybody must love something, and I know of no objects of love that give such substantial and unfailing returns as books and a garden.

Well, I for one am unable to imagine how anybody who lives with an intelligent and devoted dog can every be lonely.

There's no safety in love. You risk the whole of life. But the great thing is to risk -to believe, and to risk everything for your belief.

Love isn't decent. Love is glorious and shameless.

And the summer seems as though it would dream on for ever.

I would recommend to those persons who are inclined to stagnate, whose blood is beginning to thicken sluggishly in their veins, to try keeping four dogs, two of which are puppies.

Home is the best place when life begins to wobble.

The longer I live the greater is my respect for manure in all its forms.

... Why, it would really be being unselfish to go away and be happy for a little, because we would come back so much nicer.

No one is better than anyone else. Some just simply don't fulfil their potential of being the best they possibly can.

It is no part of a physician's business to use either persuasion or compulsion upon the patients.

I've always loved writing.

Jesus Christ only had twelve, you know, and one of them was a double.

Thought determines action. Do not let your whole life be a reaction to the things that happen around you each day. Let your life be an action.

I don't have to talk. My record speaks for itself.

I like to write. I like to do that when I'm not working so I don't go totally crazy, and so I feel like I'm still doing something constructive.

You have a very open relationship with your fans." "Yes. We have an open relationship. Obviously they can see other authors if they want, and I can see other readers.

It isn't the consumers' job to know what they want.

I've been missing Japanese literature so much of late.