Be obscure clearly! Be wild of tongue in a way we can understand.

The sea answers all questions, and always in the same way; for when you read in the papers the interminable discussions and the bickering and the prognostications and the turmoil, the disagreements and the fateful decisions and agreements and the plans and the programs and the threats and the counter threats, then you close your eyes and the sea dispatches one more big roller in the unbroken line since the beginning of the world and it combs and breaks and returns foaming and saying: "So soon?" E. B. White "On A Florida Key

I am pessimistic about the human race because it is too ingenious for its own good. Our approach to nature is to beat it into submission. We would stand a better chance of survival if we accommodated ourselves to this planet and viewed it appreciatively instead of skeptically and dictatorially.

The circus comes as close to being the world in microcosm as anything I know; in a way, it puts all the rest of show business in the shade.

It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer.

When a man hangs from a tree it doesn't spell justice unless he helped write the law that hanged him.

A writer who waits for ideal conditions under which to work will die without putting a word to paper.