You stay out here a little while, an' if you smell any roses, you come let me smell, too.

There's an awful lot of inactive kindness which is nothing but laziness, not wanting any trouble, confusion, or effort.

The nicest thing in the world you can do for anybody is let them help you.

The proofs that God does not exist are very strong, but in lots of people they are not as strong as the feeling that He does.

Literature is as old as speech. It grew out of a human need for it, and it has not changed except to become more needed

I have never smuggled anything in my life. Why, then, do I feel an uneasy sense of guilt on approaching a customs barrier?

The curious hocus-pocus of criticism I can't take seriously. It consists in squirreling up some odd phrases and then waiting for a book to come running by.