A breezy style is often the work of an egocentric, the person who imagines that everything that pops into his head is of general interest and that uninhibited prose creates high spirits and carries the day.

Life is always rich and steady time when you are waiting for something to happen or to hatch.

The critic leaves at curtain fall To find, in starting to review it, He scarcely saw the play at all For starting to review it.

Advice to young writers wo want to get ahead without any annoying delays: don't write about Man, write about a man.

Sailors have an expression about the weather: they say the weather is a great bluffer. I guess the same is true of our human society — things can look dark, then a break shows in the clouds, and all is changed.

Too many things on my mind, said Wilbur. Well, said the goose, that's not my trouble. I have nothing at all on my mind, but I've too many things under my behind.

A writer is like a bean plant - he has his little day, and then gets stringy.