Most people think of peace as a state of Nothing Bad Happening, or Nothing Much Happening. Yet if peace is to overtake us and make us the gift of serenity and well-being, it will have to be the state of Something Good Happening.

It is at a fair that man can be drunk forever on liquor, love, or fights; at a fair that your front pocket can be picked by a trotting horse looking for sugar, and your hind pocket by a thief looking for his fortune.

Hang on to your hat. Hang on to your hope. And wind the clock, for tomorrow is another day.

Creation is in part merely the business of forgoing the great and small distractions.

A writer's style reveals something of his spirit, his habits, his capacites, his bias...it is the Self escaping into the open.

Much of our adult morality, in books and out of them, has a stuffiness unworthy of childhood. Our grown-up conclusions often rest on perilously soft bottom.

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