Good deeds never go unpunished.

The complaint about modern steel furniture, modern glass houses, modern red bars and modern streamlined trains and cars is that all these objets modernize, while adequate and amusing in themselves, tend to make the people who use them look dated. It is an honest criticism. The human race has done nothing much about changing its own appearance to conform to the form and texture of its appurtenances.

Old age is a special problem for me because I've never been able to shed the mental image I have of myself - a lad of about 19.

All poets who, when reading from their own works,m experience a choked feeling, are major. For that matter, all poets who read from their own works are major, whether they choke or not.

Familiarity is the thing-the sense of belonging. It grants exemption from all evil, all shabbiness.

I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.

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