A good farmer is nothing more nor less than a handy man with a sense of humus.

Always be on the lookout for the presence of wonder.

When an American family becomes separated from its toothbrushes and combs and pajamas for a few hours it considers that it has had quite an adventure.

It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer.

Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than in a whole one.

It can destroy an individual, or it can fulfill him, depending a good deal on luck. No one should come to New York to live unless he is willing to be lucky.

I have yet to see a piece of writing, political or non-political, that does not have a slant. All writing slants the way a writer leans, and no man is born perpendicular.