Friendships do not grow up in any carefully tended and contemplated fashion.... They begin haphazard.

My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.

They go in [to the library] not because they need any certain volume but because they feel that there may be some book that needs them.

The man who never in his life Has washed the dishes with his wife Or polished up the silver plate - He still is largely celibate.

Poetry comes with anger, hunger and dismay; it does not often visit groups of citizens sitting down to be literary together, and would appal them if it did.

New York, the nation's thyroid gland.

Fifty percent of the world are women, yet they always seem a novelty.