The world is full of people who have never, since childhood, met an open doorway with an open mind.

The terror of the atom age is not the violence of the new power but the speed of man's adjustment to it, the speed of his acceptance.

There is no trick to it. If you like to write and want to write, you write, no matter where you are or what else you are doing or whether anyone pays any heed.

I admire anybody who has the guts to write anything at all.

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 really companionable and indispensable dog is an accident of nature. You can't get it by breeding for it, and you can't buy it with money. It just happens along.

The time not to become a father is eighteen years before a war.