Dentistry is more impressive in town-what the rural man calls cleaning the teeth is called "prophylaxis" in New York.

Writing is both mask and unveiling.

The theme of 'Charlotte's Web' is that a pig shall be saved, and I have an idea that somewhere deep inside me there was a wish to that effect.

A despot doesn't fear eloquent writers preaching freedom- he fears a drunken poet who may crack a joke that will take hold.

A writer should concern himself with whatever absorbs his fancy, stirs his heart, and unlimbers his typewriter. ... A writer has the duty to be good, not lousy: true, not false; lively, not dull; accurate, not full of error. He should tend to lift people up, not lower them down.

Humor is like a frog. You can dissect it to see how it works, but by then, it's dead.

Life is like writing with a pen. You can cross out your past but you can't erase it.