I like all my children, even the squat and ugly ones.

Nothing in the universe can travel at the speed of light, they say, forgetful of the shadow's speed.

For a Jewish Puritan of the middle class, the novel is serious, the novel is work, the novel is conscientious application why, the novel is practically the retail business all over again.

A teacher is a person who never says anything once.

Write what you know. That should leave you with a lot of free time.

I would talk in iambic pentameter if it were easier.

Absolute power corrupts absolutely; and if you surrender your personal responsibility to a government which promises to take care of you, they will only take care of themselves.

When Robert Frost was alive, I was known as the other new England poet, which is to be barely known at all.

Robert Frost had always said you mustn't think of the last line first, or it's only a fake poem, not a real one. I'm inclined to agree.

[T]eaching has been for me an education (Lord knows what it has been for my students).

The secrets of success are a good wife and a steady job. My wife told me.

In politics and passion, perception is reality.

Thanksgiving comes after Christmas.

We get talent and scale from mergers.

My favorite place in the world is this store called My Sister's Closet in Arizona and it's the greatest secondhand shop in the world.

I don't consider Hillary Clinton to be the lesser of two evils.

The percept is the landscape before man, in the absence of man.

There is a thin line between genius and insanity, and in Larry's (MacPhail) case it was sometimes so thin you could see him drifting back and forth.

It is the duty of men to love even those who injure them.

Sara held up a hand. 'How exactly did you "decline" his offer?' 'By slitting his throat.

What would a man do, if he were compelled to live always in the sultry heat of society, and could never bathe himself in cool solitude?