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

The impact of television on our culture is. . . indescribable. There's a certain sense in which it is nearly as important as the invention of printing.

In democracy both a deep reverence and a sense of the comic are requisite.

We don't have to think up a title till we get the doggone book written.

Never will a time come when the most marvelous recent invention is as marvelous as a newborn child.

Poetry is any page from a sketchbook of outlines of a doorknob with thumb-prints of dust, blood, dreams.

Gather the stars if you wish it so Gather the songs and keep them. Gather the faces of women. Gather for keeping years and years. And then... Loosen your hands, let go and say good-bye. Let the stars and songs go. Let the faces and years go. Loosen your hands and say good-bye.