The color and shape of flowers are a precise record of what bees find attractive

There was a distinction between lying and telling half-truths, but it was a very narrow one.

I would like to die on Mars. Just not on impact.

If you are ever uncomfortable or are unsure of something, you attribute it.

I don't like going out. I hate clubs. I hate being around too many people.

You mean guys don't get injured in spring training? Guys get hurt walking down the street.

Of course the illusion of art is to make one believe that great literature is very close to life, but exactly the opposite is true. Life is amorphous, literature is formal.

I would not creep along the coast but steer Out in mid-sea, by guidance of the stars.

I am a lefty, though I bat right-handed... When I was a kid I pitched, played first, outfield and shortstop as well. Now it's mainly softball with some friends.

I've always loved children. When I was working with children as a librarian, I loved being with them and working around them.

It wasn't that I wanted to be an artist. But when I took my first drawing class with the painter Doug Ohlson, I could never finish a drawing.