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

Our vegetable garden is coming along well, with radishes and beans up, and we are less worried about revolution that we used to be.

Every morning I awake torn between a desire to save the world and an inclination to savor it. This makes it hard to plan the day. But if we forget to savor the world, what possible reason do we have for saving it? In a way, the savoring must come first.

One of the most time-consuming things is to have an enemy.

The critic leaves at curtain fall To find, in starting to review it, He scarcely saw the play at all For starting to review it.

Anyone who writes down to children is simply wasting his time. You have to write up, not down.

Writers do not merely reflect and interpret life, they inform and shape life.