Safety is all well and good: I prefer freedom.

Home was quite a place when people stayed there.

I can still see my first dog. For six years he met me at the same place after school and convoyed me home - a service he thought up himself. A boy doesn't forget that sort of association.

The whole duty of a writer is to please and satisfy himself, and the true writer always plays to an audience of one.

I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.

Although there is no substitute for merit in writing, clarity comes closest to being one.

Life's meaning has always eluded me and I guess always will. But I love it just the same.