All that I hope to say in books, all that I ever hope to say, is that I love the world.

Television will enormously enlarge the eye's range, and, like radio, will advertise the Elsewhere. Together with the tabs, the mags, and the movies, it will insist that we forget the primary and the near in favor of the secondary and the remote.

Children hold spring so tightly in their brown fists-just as grownups, who are less sure of it, hold it in their hearts.

A writer is like a bean plant - he has his little day, and then gets stringy.

I’ve got a new friend, all right. But what a gamble friendship is! Charlotte is fierce, brutal, scheming, bloodthirsty—everything I don’t like. How can I learn to like her, even though she is pretty and, of course, clever?

Geese are friends to no one, they bad mouth everybody and everything. But they are companionable once you get used to their ingratitude and false accusations.

I don't understand it, and I don't like what I don't understand.