A writer lives in awe of words, for they can be cruel or kind, and they can change their meanings right in front of you. They pick up flavors and odors like butter in a refrigerator.

Trips to fairly unknown regions should be made twice; once to make mistakes and once to correct them.

What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.

A man on a horse is spiritually, as well as physically, bigger then a man on foot.

Men do change, and change comes like a little wind that ruffles the curtains at dawn, and it comes like the stealthy perfume of wildflowers hidden in the grass.

I know three things will never be believed - the true, the probable, and the logical

The story [Henny-Penny] has the best opening in all literature-"The sky is falling," cried Henny-Penny, "and a piece of it fell on my tail.