The bicycle, the bicycle surely, should always be the vehicle of novelists and poets.

That's what this country needs -- more books!

Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.

Being in a hurry seems so fiercely important when you yourself are the hurrier and so comically ludicrous when it is someone else.

Why do they put the Gideon Bibles only in the bedrooms, where it's usually too late...?

Truth and Beauty (perhaps Keats was wrong in identifying them: perhaps they have the relation of Wit and Humour, or Rain and Rainbow) are of interest only to hungry people. There are several kinds of hunger. If Socrates, Spinoza, and Santayana had had free access to a midnight icebox we would never have heard of them. Shall I be ashamed of my little mewing truths?... I ask to be forgiven: they are such tiny ones.

We've had bad luck with our kids - they've all grown up.