The turnip is a capricious vegetable, which seems reluctant to show itself at its best.

It is the destiny of mint to be crushed.

Drink wine every day, at lunch and dinner, and the rest will take care of itself.

The turkey has a destiny which ends on San Martino's day.

The oat is the Horatio Alger of cereals, which progressed, if not from rags to riches, at least from weed to health food.

The hard-drinking newspaperman is, or used to be, a stock character of fiction. Now he is being phased out of literature just as he is being phased out of life.

Our thoughts create our lifestyle, if you live healthy, it means you think healthy thoughts and if you think unhealthy thoughts, it will reflect in your health and lifestyle too.

We can't begin to learn until we admit how much we don't know.

Lovers and warriors are not bound by the rules of fair play.

Part of us did die. Literally - that tissue on your face, the part they removed. It died. And you can't recover from any kind of death without mourning it.

The typewriter is holy the poem is holy the voice is holy the hearers are holy the ecstacy is holy!

It's easy to talk about how much you love God, but loving others reveals how much you truly do.

If you can look in your mother's eyes and she's proud of you, then you're a champion.

I took benzedrine - I got clairvoyance. With benzedrine you can have a very wide view of the world, like you can decide the destiny of man and other pressing problems, such as which is the left sock?

Every person in every generation has a choice: to obey God or to do his own thing.

Nature is monumentally indifferent.