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.

There's no limit to how complicated things can get, on account of one thing always leading to another.

The vision of milk and honey, it comes and goes. But the odor of cooking goes on forever.

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

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.

English usage is sometimes more than mere taste, judgment and education - sometimes it's sheer luck, like getting across the street.

Books are the door of escape from the forest.