Arithmetic is numbers you squeeze from your head to your hand to your pencil to your paper till you get the answer.

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.

Anger is the most impotent of passions. It effects nothing it goes about, and hurts the one who is possessed by it more than the one against whom it is directed.

When I was writing pretty poor poetry, this girl with midnight black hair told me to go on.

There are some people who can receive a truth by no other way than to have their understanding shocked and insulted.

The single clenched fist lifted and ready, Or the open asking hand held out and waiting. Choose: For we meet by one or the other.

Money is power, freedom, a cushion, the root of all evil, the sum of blessings.