Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.

All writing is communication; creative writing is communication through revelation-it is the Self-escaping into the open.

Well,” said Stuart, “a misspelled word is an abomination in the sight of everyone.

A writer's style reveals something of his spirit, his habits, his capacites, his bias...it is the Self escaping into the open.

When I was a child people simply looked about them and were moderately happy; today they peer beyond the seven seas, bury themselves waist deep in tidings, and by and large what they see and hear makes them unutterably sad.

There is another sort of day which needs celebrating in song -- the day of days when spring at last holds up her face to be kissed, deliberate and unabashed. On that day no wind blows either in the hills or in the mind.

The theme of 'Charlotte's Web' is that a pig shall be saved, and I have an idea that somewhere deep inside me there was a wish to that effect.