Always be on the lookout for the presence of wonder.

A library is a good place to go when you feel unhappy, for there, in a book, you may find encouragement and comfort. A library is a good place to go when you feel bewildered or undecided, for there, in a book, you may have your question answered. Books are good company, in sad times and happy times, for books are people - people who have managed to stay alive by hiding between the covers of a book.

Write about it by day and dream about it by night.

There is a period near the beginning of every man's life when he has little to cling to except his unmanageable dream, little to support him except good health, and nowhere to go but all over the place.

In a free country it is the duty of writers to pay no attention to duty.

People are, if anything, more touchy about being thought silly than they are about being thought unjust.

Commuters give the city its tidal restlessness, natives give it solidity and continuity, but the settlers give it passion.