A poet sees things in two ways: First, as a child who never saw it before, and Second, as a dying man who will never see it again.

I think young people ought to seek the experience that is going to knock them off center.

We are never prepared for what we expect.

a soldier lives always for the next battle, because he knows that before it arrives impossible changes can occur in his favor.

Creative geniuses are a slap-happy lot. Treat Them with respect.

A group of two dozen nurses completely surrounded by 100,000 unattached American men.

Only another writer, someone who had worked his heart out on a good book which sold three thousand copies, could appreciate the thrill that overcame me one April morning in 1973 when Dean Rivers of our small college in Georgia appeared at my classroom door