I do not know a better cure for mental illness than a book.

He who loves lives, he who lives works, and he who works has bread.

Do not call yourself old. A man is as old as the creative force within him.

When I have trouble writing, I step outside my studio into the garden and pull weeds until my mind clears--I find weeding to be the best therapy there is for writer's block.

After all, the world is still great.

If it is noticed that much of my outside work concerns itelf with libraries, there is an extremely good reason for this. I think that the better part of my education, almost as important as that secured in the schools and the universities, came from libraries.

The writer ... an athlete required to break the four-minute mile every morning.