My suspicion is that once you have literacy in place, the readership has not changed very much.

It's hell writing and it's hell not writing. The only tolerable state is having just written.

Such tenderness, those afternoons and evenings, saying blackberry, blackberry, blackberry.

Take the time to write. You can do your life's work in half an hour a day.

Longing, we say, because desire is full of endless distances.

Poetry is a fireplace in summer or a fan in winter.

If you're imaginatively responsible to the place you live in, you understand the watershed.

The birds are silent in the woods. / Just wait: soon enough / You will be quiet too

Imagination runs through the places where we live like water. We need both things-a living knowledge of the land and a live imagination of it and our place in it- if we are going to preserve it.

Repetition makes us feel secure and variation makes us feel free.

Writing is an incessant process of discovery.

Joy is only as satisfying as repentance is deep.

As a designer, design director or any creative person, you have to hire great people, support them and make them feel comfortable so they can contribute and give you their best.

I think I'm innocently representing a certain belief in motion pictures, and, well OK.

And So This Is Christmas; And What Have We Done? Another Year Over; A New One Just Begun; And So Happy Christmas; I Hope You Have Fun; The Near And The Dear Ones; The Old And The Young.

America! America! God shed His grace on thee And crown thy good with brotherhood From sea to shinning sea!

The fact was, I didn't know if I was built for happy endings.

My refrigerator is full of kale and greens. I can't imagine something greasy, or eating meat.

He without benefit of scruples - His fun and money soon quadruples.

I don't have a lot to offer one person. I have a lot to offer to a lot of people.

No greater evil can a man endure Than a bad wife, nor find a greater good Than one both good and wise; and each man speaks As judging by the experience of his life.