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

If a man is to be obsessed by something, I suppose a boat is as good as anything, perhaps a bit better than most.

Semi-colons only prove that the author has been to college.

It is quite possible that an animal has spoken to me and that I didn't catch the remark because I wasn't paying attention.

Habitually creative people are prepared to be lucky.

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.

When snow accumulates week after week, month after month, it works curious miracles.