You have been my friends. That in itself is a tremendous thing.

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

This is what youth must figure out: Girls, love, and living. The having, the not having, The spending and giving, And the meloncholy time of not knowing. This is what age must learn about: The ABC of dying. The going, yet not going, The loving and leaving, And the unbearable knowing and knowing

From morning till night, sounds drift from the kitchen, most of them familiar and comforting. . . . On days when warmth is the most important need of the human heart, the kitchen is the place you can find it; it dries the wet sock, it cools the hot little brain.

Even now; with a thousand little voyages notched in my belt. I still feel a memorial chill on casting off.

Before the seed there comes the thought of bloom.

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.