As a writing man, or secretary, I have always felt charged with the safekeeping of all unexpected items of worldly and unworldly enchantment, as though I might be held personally responsible if even a small one were to be lost.

Wilbur didn't want food, he wanted love.

No matter what changes take place in the world, or in me, nothing ever seems to disturb the face of spring.

Before the seed there comes the thought of bloom.

Deathlessness should be arrived at in a... haphazard fashion. Loving fame as much as any man, we shall carve our initials in the shell of a tortoise and turn him loose in a peat bog.

Write about it by day and dream about it by night.

I see nothing in space as promising as the view from a Ferris wheel.