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

When I get sick of what men do, I have only to walk a few steps in another direction to see what spiders do. Or what the weather does. This sustains me very well indeed.

A library is many things. It's a place to go, to get in out of the rain. It's a place to go if you want to sit and think. But particularly it is a place where books live, and where you can get in touch with other people, and other thoughts, through books. If you want to find out about something, the information is in the reference books---the dictionaries, the encyclopedias, the atlases. If you like to be told a story, the library is the place to go.

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.

The only sense that is common in the long run, is the sense of change and we all instinctively avoid it.

If a man is to be obsessed by something, I suppose a boat is as good as anything, perhaps a bit better than most.

I am reminded of the advice of my neighbor. "Never worry about your heart till it stops beating.