Ducking for apples -- change one letter and it's the story of my life.

You do what you can, and you do it because you should. But all you can do is all you can do.

My land is bare of chattering folk; / the clouds are low along the ridges, / and sweet's the air with curly smoke / from all my burning bridges.

On lady novelists: As artists they're rot, but as providers they're oil wells; they gush. Norris said she never wrote a story unless it was fun to do. I understand Ferber whistles at her typewriter.

All those writers who write about their own childhood! Gentle God, if I wrote about mine you wouldn't sit in the same room with me.

Art is a form of catharsis.

I was the toast of two continents: Greenland and Australia.