We are never prepared for what we expect.

The most sheer fun I ever had in sports was playing volleyball, a game I commend highly. I understand that an effort is under way to establish a national league of professional volleyball teams, and if you have ever seen the great women's teams of Japan and Russia or the equally good men's teams of Cuba and East Germany, you know how exciting this playground game, which requires so little equipment, can be.

If a young aspirant had a modicum of skill and a busy typewriter she or he would sooner or later get a foothold in one of the magazines and a leaping start on the ladder upward.

I think the crucial thing in the writing career is to find what you want to do and how you fit in. What somebody else does is of no concern whatever except as an interesting variation.

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.

For this is the journey that men and women make, to find themselves. If they fail in this, it doesn't matter much else what they find.

A writer can make a fortune in America, but he can't make a living.