Why should anybody be interested in some old man who was a failure?

The educated man is the man who can do something. The quality of his work marks the degree of his education.

The house was built on the highest part of the narrow tongue of land between the harbor and the open sea. It had lasted through three hurricanes and it was built solid as a ship.

It is by riding a bicycle that you learn the contours of a country best, since you have to sweat up the hills and coast down them.

Imagination? It is the one thing beside honesty that a good writer must have. The more he learns from experience the more he can imagine.

You love a lot of things if you live around them, but there isn't any woman and there isn't any horse, nor any before nor any after, that is as lovely as a great airplane.

If he wrote it, he could get rid of it. He had gotten rid of many things by writing them.