I dream that my face appears on a postage stamp.

Children drown, beautiful women are mangled in automobile accidents, cruise ships founder, and men die lingering deaths in mines and submarines, but you will find none of this in my accounts.

The poet or storyteller who feels that he is competing with a superb double play in the World Series is a lost man. One would not want as a reader a man who did not appreciate the finesse of a double play.

I love you not for the person you are, but for your possibilities.

Fear tastes like a rusty knife and do not let her into your house. Courage tastes of blood. Stand up straight. Admire the world. Relish the love of a gentle woman.

Without a reader, I cannot write. It's like a kiss: they cannot be done alone.

Avoid kneeling in unheated stone churches. Ecclesiastical dampness causes prematurely grey hair.