I am a little man and this is a little town, but there must be a spark in little men that can burst into flame.

A wife is like a children's movie; always under-appreciated and without either, life would be incomplete.

It is strange how a man believes he can think better in a special place. I have such a place, have always had it, but I know it isn't thinking I do there, but feeling and experiencing and remembering. It's a safety place. Everyone must have one, although I never heard a man tell of it.

A little hope, even hopeless hope, never hurt anybody.

Literature was not promulgated by a pale and emasculated critical priesthood singing their litanies in empty churches, nor is it a game for the cloistered elect, the tinhorn mendicants of low calorie despair.

I have lost all sense of home, having moved about so much. It means to me now--only that place where the books are kept.

I do not find illness an eminence, and I do not understand how people can use it to draw attention to themselves since the attention they draw is nearly always reluctantly given and unpleasantly carried out.