The vision of milk and honey, it comes and goes. But the odor of cooking goes on forever.

Writing is an act of faith, not a trick of grammar.

Whatever else an American believes or disbelieves about himself, he is absolutely sure he has a sense of humor.

There is nothing harder to estimate than a writer's time, nothing harder to keep track of. There are moments—moments of sustained creation—when his time is fairly valuable; and there are hours and hours when a writer's time isn't worth the paper he is not writing anything on.

I am always humbled by the infite ingenuity of the Lord, who can make a red barn cast a blue shadow.

This is what youth must figure out: Girls, love, and living. The having, the not having, The spending and giving, And the meloncholy time of not knowing. This is what age must learn about: The ABC of dying. The going, yet not going, The loving and leaving, And the unbearable knowing and knowing

I believe... that security declines as security machinery expands.