A candidate could easily commit political suicide if he were to come up with an unconventional thought during a presidential tour.

I always write a thing first and think about it afterward, which is not a bad procedure because the easiest way to have consequential thoughts is to start putting them down.

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

A really companionable and indispensable dog is an accident of nature. You can't get it by breeding for it, and you can't buy it with money. It just happens along.

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

A breezy style is often the work of an egocentric, the person who imagines that everything that pops into his head is of general interest and that uninhibited prose creates high spirits and carries the day.

In a free country it is the duty of writers to pay no attention to duty.