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

Never hurry and never worry!

All writing is communication; creative writing is communication through revelation-it is the Self-escaping into the open.

Well,” said Stuart, “a misspelled word is an abomination in the sight of everyone.

Good deeds never go unpunished.

From morning till night, sounds drift from the kitchen, most of them familiar and comforting. . . . On days when warmth is the most important need of the human heart, the kitchen is the place you can find it; it dries the wet sock, it cools the hot little brain.

Much of our adult morality, in books and out of them, has a stuffiness unworthy of childhood. Our grown-up conclusions often rest on perilously soft bottom.