Even the most misfitting childWho's chanced upon the library's worth, Sits with the genius of the EarthAnd turns the key to the whole world.--"Hear It Again

Imagination can bring you far. Laziness can also bring you far, far from your goals.

Contemporary writers annoyed him, he found their worlds insular, their style too self-conscious and ironic. Theirs was not a literature that belonged to him.

Why do you have a cigarette lighter in your glove compartment?" her husband, Jack, asked her. "I'm bored with knitting. I've taken up arson

A mourner is, perforce, a person with a story. The pity is, how very rarely it gets told.

All time is wasted that is not spent in seeking God

Science is a combination of theory and experiment and the two together are how you make progress.

The truth is that men can have several sorts of pleasure. The true pleasure is the one for which they abandon the other.

My images are unashamedly idyllic and romantic, a kind of enchanted Africa. They're my elegy to a world that is steadily, tragically vanishing.

I quit smoking cigarettes and with the $70 a month I am saving not smoking cigarettes I'm smoking $700 worth of cigars.

I think that the 'laws of nature' are also prone to evolve; I think they are more like habits than laws.