It took me forty years on earth To reach this sure conclusion: There is no Heaven but clarity, No Hell except confusion.

In childhood the daylight always fails too soon - except when there are going to be fireworks.

For to love, loveless, is a bitter pill:But to be loved, unloving, bitterer still.

swans ... always look as though they'd just been reading their own fan-mail.

to achieve unity without uniformity is the whole essence of the democratic way of life.

Punctuality is the thief of adventure.

[Gardening] is a means by which you can attain many valuable hours of solitude without being thought unsociable.

The worst of gardening is that it's so full of metaphors one hardly knows where to begin.

It's just as important to marry the right life as the right person.

librarianship is one of the few callings in the world for which is it still possible to feel unqualified admiration and respect.

One is what one remembers: no more, no less.

Universities are seminaries to produce Leftists

The greatest achievement of the civil-rights movement is that it has restored the dignity of indignation.

A gift much expected is paid, not given.

I can handle being married for my money; it's being married for my life insurance that gives me pause.

I would not send a first story anywhere. I would give myself time to write a number of stories.

I'm feeling very angry right now, because I have only one bed and no couch.

The shock of twentieth-century technology numbed our brains and we are just beginning to notice the spiritual and social debris that our technology has strewn about us.

Nobody wants to have in their CV in the upper echelons of the American economic family that they nationalised major banks.

Your mind just goes to the craziest idea to lure people into the theater, and then you write your script around those elements.

The essential thing to know about God is that God is Good. All the rest is secondary.