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.

When a man hangs from a tree it doesn't spell justice unless he helped write the law that hanged him.

No matter what changes take place in the world, or in me, nothing ever seems to disturb the face of spring.

Writers do not merely reflect and interpret life, they inform and shape life.

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

Use the smallest word that does the job.

Necessity first mothered invention. Now invention has little ones of her own, and they look just like grandma.