Our vegetable garden is coming along well, with radishes and beans up, and we are less worried about revolution that we used to be.

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.

New York is part of the natural world. I love the city, I love the country, and for the same reasons. The city is part of the country. When I had an apartment on East Forty-Eighth Street, my backyard during the migratory season yielded more birds than I ever saw in Maine.

A despot doesn't fear eloquent writers preaching freedom- he fears a drunken poet who may crack a joke that will take hold.

Habitually creative people are prepared to be lucky.

Write about it by day and dream about it by night.

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