It is necessary ... for a man to go away by himself ... to sit on a rock ... and ask, 'Who am I, where have I been, and where am I going?

The moon is a friend for the lonesome to talk to.

I knew I would read all kinds of books and try to get at what it is that makes good writers good. But I made no promises that I would write books a lot of people would like to read.

The machine yes the machine never wastes anybody's time never watches the foreman never talks back.

A baby is God's opinion that life should go on.

We live in the time of the colossal upright oblong.

Somebody's little girl- how easy it is to make a sob story over who she once was and who she now is.