We should all do what, in the long run, gives us joy, even if it is only picking grapes or sorting the laundry.

Writing is one way to go about thinking, and the practice and habit of writing not only drain the mind but supply it, too.

I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.

Thus I, gone forth, as spiders do, In spider’s web a truth discerning, Attach one silken strand to you For my returning.

The trouble with the profit system has always been that it was highly unprofitable to most people.

Wilbur didn't want food, he wanted love.

No one can write decently who is distrustful of the reader's intelligence or whose attitude is patronizing.