There is in every human being, I think, a native country of the mind, where, protected by inaccessible barriers, the sensitive dream life may exist safely.

Preserve, within a wild sanctuary, an inaccessible valley of reverie.

The hardest thing to believe when you're young is that people will fight to stay in a rut, but not to get out of one.

A farmer's got to be born, same as a fool. You can't make a corn pone out of flour dough by the twistin' of it.

In the past few years, I have made a thrilling discovery ... that until one is over sixty, one can never really learn the secret of living. One can then begin to live, not simply with the intense part of oneself, but with one's entire being.

Yes, I learned long ago that the only satisfaction of authorship lies in finding the very few who understand what we mean. As for outside rewards, there is not one that I have ever discovered.

He who demands little gets it.