You know how advice is. You only want it if it agrees with what you wanted to do anyway.

Your audience is one single reader. I have found that sometimes it helps to pick out one person-a real person you know, or an imagined person and write to that one.

A study of animal communities has this advantage: they are merely what they are, for anyone to see who will and can look clearly; they cannot complicate the picture by worded idealisms, by saying one thing and being another; here the struggle is unmasked and the beauty is unmasked.

The final weapon is the brain, all else is supplemental.

Being at ease with himself put him at ease with the world.

When we get these thruways across the whole country, as we will and must, it will be possible to drive from New York to California without seeing a single thing.

You're getting well,' Samuel said. 'Some people think it's an insult to the glory of their sickness to get well. But the time poultice is no respecter of glories. Everyone gets well if he waits around.