Waves, once they land on the beach, are not reversible.

Good talkers are people who use interesting language and have a lot of energy in speech and who also listen.

If you're old and you're healthy and you're active - I don't mean you have to be politically active - if you remain interested in other people and the world, then you live as well as your health will allow.

There is a long time in me between knowing and telling.

When you think of things that influenced your life, Mother Goose influenced more people than almost any other thing, the rhythms of those poems. Everything after that was a bare imitation of some of those mysterious and materialistic poems.

I am very interested in people trying to write because I don't have a big academic background at all.

In the end, long life is the reward, strength, and beauty.