... home isn't always the place where you were born and bred. Home is the place where your everyday clothes are, and where somebody or something needs you.

Writers should be read but not seen. Rarely are they a winsome sight.

About mistakes it's funny. You got to make your own; and not only that, if you try to keep people from making theirs they get mad.

Does one eat peanuts at a ball game?' 'It ain't hardly legal if you don't.

Books should be cherished, like children, books are for the next generation, like children, like history.

I suppose it is a gift, being young, but it isn't special. We've all got it, early in life.

A stricken tree, a living thing, so beautiful, so dignified, so admirable in its potential longevity, is, next to man, perhaps the most touching of wounded objects.