In writing, fidelity to fact leads eventually to the poetry of truth.

Nothing could be older than the daily news, nothing deader than yesterday's newspaper.

If it's knowledge and wisdom you want, then seek out the company of those who do real work for an honest purpose.

The axiom of conditioned repetition, like the binomial theorem, is nothing but a piece of insolence.

Mayonnaise, like hollandaise, was invented by the French to cover up the flavor of spoiled flesh, stale vegetables, rotten fish. Beware the sauce! Where food comes beslobbered with an elegant slime you may well suspect the integrity of the basic ingredients.

Desert springtime, with flowers popping up all over the place, trees leafing out, streams gushing down from the mountains. Great time of year for hiking, camping, exploring, sleeping under the new moon and the old stars. At dawn and at evening we hear the coyotes howling with excitement—mating season.

Romanticism was more than merely an alternative to a sterile classicism; romanticism made possible, especially in art, a great expansion of the human consciousness.