The secrets of success are a good wife and a steady job. My wife told me.

I think there's one thing which distinguishes our art - we don't consider. We don't think. We write a little verse because it comes to us.

I liked the kid who wrote me that he had to do a term paper on a modern poet and he was doing me because, though they say you have to read poems twice, he found he could handle mine in one try.

That so much of our experience, or the stereotype which passes for it should be dealt with by means of the short story is perhaps a symptom not unnoticeable elsewhere in the public domain of an unlovely cynicism about human character.

Robert Frost had always said you mustn't think of the last line first, or it's only a fake poem, not a real one. I'm inclined to agree.

Why are stamps adorned with kings and presidents? That we may lick their hinder parts and thump their heads.

Nothing in the universe can travel at the speed of light, they say, forgetful of the shadow's speed.