I write about, more or less, everything I can think of, that is I stretch my imagination as far as it'll go. I am kind of stuck in the middle as far as my life goes, and hence my imagination tends to zero in on things which are indeed in the middle. That is, I don't write about the very rich, who I scarcely know, or the very poor who I don't know very well either.

Of plants tomatoes seemed the most human, eager and fragile and prone to rot.

Hoping to fashion a mirror, the lover doth polish the face of his beloved until he produces a skull.

Fenway Park, in Boston, is a lyric little bandbox of a ballpark. Everything is painted green and seems in curiously sharp focus, like the inside of an old-fashioned peeping-type Easter egg.

To be President of the United States, sir, is to act as advocate for a blind, venomous, and ungrateful client.

Sun and moon, sun and moon, time goes.

What you haven't done by thirty you're not likely to do. What you have done you'll do lots more.