There were periods during my childhood when I stammered so badly I couldn't talk at all.

There aren't many irritations to match the condescension which a woman metes out to a man who she believes has loved her vainly for the past umpteen years.

Country people do not behave as if they think life is short; they live on the principle that it is long, and savor variations of the kind best appreciated if most days are the same.

Summer is when we believe, all of a sudden, that if we just walked out the back door and kept on going long enough and far enough we would reach the Rocky Mountains.

Men greet each other with a sock on the arm, women with a hug, and the hug wears better in the long run.

In order to really enjoy a dog, one doesn't merely try to train him to be semi-human. The point of it is to open oneself to the possibility of becoming partly a dog.

The novelist screws up his courage in order to invest another two or three years in another attempt to float a boat of original design upon an invented ocean.