When I write a novel, every word is mine. I welcome suggestions from my editor, but in the end, I make all the final decisions.

It is better to take many small steps in the right direction than to make a great leap forward only to stumble backward.

If only, if only," the woodpecker sighs, "The bark on the tree was as soft as the skies." While the wolf waits below, hungry and lonely, Crying to the moo-oo-oon, "If only, If only.

It was all because of his no-good-dirty-rotten-pig-stealinggreat-great-grandfather!

You need a reason to be sad. You don't need a reason to be happy.

The impossible is more believable than the highly improbable.

An idea doesn't die," said Trapp. "It exists somewhere, in its own dimension, waiting to be perceived.

He could hardly lift his spoon during breakfast, and then he was out on the lake, his spoon soon replaced by a shovel.

There is no lake at Camp Green Lake.

In a way, it made him sad. He couldn't help but think that a hundred times zero was still nothing.

Whenever you give someone a present or sing a holiday song, you're helping Santa Claus. To me, that's what Christmas is all about. Helping Santa Claus!

That's the difference between governments and individuals. Governments don't care, individuals do.

Yet should there hover in their restless headsOne thought, one grace, one wonder at the least, Which into words no virtue can digest.

So long, Lee. Give our regards to the Kaiser. And tell him there's a few boys on 58th Street who'll throw a party for him if he'll drop around.

Gardening always has been an art, essentially.

Market prices are always wrong.

Before giving advice we must have secured its acceptance, or, rather, have made it desired.

The highest order that was ever instituted on earth is the order of faith.

Let's face it I am not Joan Collins or Boy George.

This perception of division between the seer and the object that is seen, is situated in the mind. For those remaining in the heart, the seer becomes one with the sight.

The president doesn't get a line-item veto, so all the budgetary approps stuff is with Congress.