we know by the odour that occasionally we are visited by skunks, which are not poetic but very beautiful.

If you are lazy, and accept your lot, you may live in it. If you are willing to work, you can write your name anywhere you choose.

How a big majority of book critics and authors have come to believe and to teach that no book is true to life unless it is true to the worst in life, God knows.

I write as the birds sing, because I must, and usually from the same source of inspiration.

You cannot write on the heart of another what you do not feel yourself.

Nature can be trusted to work her own miracle in the heart of any man whose daily task keeps him alone among her sights, sounds and silences.

Be sure that you are right; and then go ahead.

Nature always levies her tribute.

The seasons run with swift feet.

there was nothing in the whole world so dreadful as the power of riches wrongly used.

In the economy of nature nothing is ever lost. I cannot belive that the soul of man shall prove the one exception

You, ” he says, before the door closes all the way. “I often dream of you.

Most of the laugh tracks on television were recorded in the early 1950’s. These days, most of the people you hear laughing are dead.

The only things you regret are the things you didn't do.

I think modern television shows, with their intricate plots, are stimulating our minds. This is one reason IQs have been going up.

Writing is not my problem, it is my solution.

Sometimes I write about things that never happened to me that wind up happening to me. When you put things out in the universe, sometimes they wind up coming true.

Go away... I'm alright.

Right, sure. Because there's no girls in politics! I have no interest. Voting? What? I forgot my apron. I think I ought to be in the kitchen right now, actually. My rolling pin-

I don't take the camera out with me. My eyes are the camera for me every day.

I never really found out what love was.