There is something about a poet which leads us to believe that he died, in many cases, as long as 20 years before his birth.

Humourists lead... an existence of jumpiness and apprehension. They sit on the edge of the chair of Literature. In the house of Life they have the feeling that they have never taken off their overcoats.

One has but to observe a community of beavers at work in a stream to understand the loss in his sagacity, balance, co-operation, competence, and purpose which Man has suffered since he rose up on his hind legs. He began to chatter and he developed Reason, Thought, and Imagination, qualities which would get the smartest group of rabbits or orioles in the world into inextricable trouble overnight.

There is no exception to the rule that every rule has an exception.

There are two kinds of light - the glow that illuminates, and the glare that obscures.

Man is troubled by what might be called the Dog Wish, a strange and involved compulsion to be as happy and carefree as a dog

Some American writers who have known each other for years have never met in the daytime or when both were sober.