There is no trick to it. If you like to write and want to write, you write, no matter where you are or what else you are doing or whether anyone pays any heed.

I can only assume that your editorial writer tripped over the First Amendment and thought it was the office cat.

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.

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.

The critic leaves at curtain fall To find, in starting to review it, He scarcely saw the play at all For starting to review it.

Democracy is a request from a War Board, in the middle of a morning in the middle of a war, wanting to know what democracy is.

Habitually creative people are prepared to be lucky.