Writers do not merely reflect and interpret life, they inform and shape life.

Life is always rich and steady time when you are waiting for something to happen or to hatch.

There is nothing more likely to start disagreement among people or countries than an agreement.

The so-called science of poll-taking is not a science at all but mere necromancy. People are unpredictable by nature, and although you can take a nation's pulse, you can't be sure that the nation hasn't just run up a flight of stairs.

Deathlessness should be arrived at in a... haphazard fashion. Loving fame as much as any man, we shall carve our initials in the shell of a tortoise and turn him loose in a peat bog.

Once in everyone's life there is apt to be a period when he is fully awake, instead of half-asleep.

No matter what changes take place in the world, or in me, nothing ever seems to disturb the face of spring.