In democracy both a deep reverence and a sense of the comic are requisite.
Back of every mistaken venture and defeat is the laughter of wisdom, if you listen.
The shovel is the brother to the gun.
The greatest cunning is to have none at all.
Poetry is a phantom script telling how rainbows are made and why they go away.
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.