When you consider that there are a thousand ways to express even the simplest idea, it is no wonder writers are under a great strain. Writers care greatly how a thing is said - it makes all the difference. So they are constantly faced with too many choices and must make too many decisions.

You're terrific as far as I am concerned.

After all, what's a life, anyway? We're born, we live a little while, we die.

Before the seed there comes the thought of bloom.

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

A poet dares be just so clear and no clearer... He unzips the veil from beauty, but does not remove it. A poet utterly clear is a trifle glaring.

A man who publishes his letters becomes a nudist - nothing shields him from the world's gaze except his bare skin. A writer, writing away, can always fix things up to make himself more presentable, but a man who has written a letter is stuck with it for all time.