I always write a thing first and think about it afterward, which is not a bad procedure because the easiest way to have consequential thoughts is to start putting them down.

Books hold most of the secrets of the world, most of the thoughts that men and women have had. And when you are reading a book, you and the author are alone together-just the two of you.

Thurber did not write the way a surgeon operates, he wrote the way a child skips rope, the way a mouse waltzes.

The main thing I try to do is write as clearly as I can. I rewrite a good deal to make it clear.

New York is to the nation what the white church spire is to the village - the visible symbol of aspiration and faith, the white plume saying the way is up!

A library is a good place to go when you feel bewildered or undecided, for there in a book, you may have your question answered

I am always humbled by the infite ingenuity of the Lord, who can make a red barn cast a blue shadow.