Life is like writing with a pen. You can cross out your past but you can't erase it.

Necessity first mothered invention. Now invention has little ones of her own, and they look just like grandma.

The only sense that is common in the long run, is the sense of change and we all instinctively avoid it.

From three to four, he planned to stand perfectly still and think of what it was like to be alive.

I have yet to see a piece of writing, political or non-political, that does not have a slant. All writing slants the way a writer leans, and no man is born perpendicular.

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

A poem compresses much in a small space and adds music, thus heightening its meaning.