Children hold spring so tightly in their brown fists-just as grownups, who are less sure of it, hold it in their hearts.

Most people think of peace as a state of Nothing Bad Happening, or Nothing Much Happening. Yet if peace is to overtake us and make us the gift of serenity and well-being, it will have to be the state of Something Good Happening.

Everything in life is somewhere else, and you get there in a car.

The most puzzling thing about TV is the steady advance of the sponsor across the line that has always separated news from promotion, entertainment from merchandising. The advertiser has assumed the role of originator, and the performer has gradually been eased into the role of peddler.

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

Much of our adult morality, in books and out of them, has a stuffiness unworthy of childhood. Our grown-up conclusions often rest on perilously soft bottom.

Writing is one way to go about thinking, and the practice and habit of writing not only drain the mind but supply it, too.