Publishing a volume of verse is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.

Not every woman in old slippers can manage to look like Cinderella

It would be a colorless world if each individual did not secretly believe himself superior to almost everyone else.

I love you as New Englanders love pie!

Honesty is a good thing, but it is not profitable to its possessor unless it is kept under control.

I get up in the morning with an idea for a three-volume novel and by nightfall it's a paragraph in my column.

Fishing is a delusion entirely surrounded by liars in old clothes.