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

There is a period near the beginning of every man's life when he has little to cling to except his unmanageable dream, little to support him except good health, and nowhere to go but all over the place.

In a free country it is the duty of writers to pay no attention to duty.

A really companionable and indispensable dog is an accident of nature. You can't get it by breeding for it, and you can't buy it with money. It just happens along.

When I get sick of what men do, I have only to walk a few steps in another direction to see what spiders do. Or what the weather does. This sustains me very well indeed.

The whole duty of a writer is to please and satisfy himself, and the true writer always plays to an audience of one.

Everything in life is somewhere else, and you get there in a car.