I don't think the real America is in New York or on the Pacific Coast; personally, I like the Middle West much better, places like North and South Dakota, Minneapolis and Saint Paul. There, I think, are the true Americans

Unless I write every day, I don't feel I deserve my dinner.

Laughter is the tonic, the relief, the surcease for pain.

I have found that great ideas come when you have a great desire to have them.

Life is a beautiful, magnificent thing, even to a jellyfish.

I suppose that's one of the ironies of life doing the wrong thing at the right moment.

Hair is vitally personal to children. They weep vigorously when it is cut for the first time; no matter how it grows, bushy, straight or curly, they feel they are being shorn of a part of their personality.