Bear figs for a season or two, and the world outside the orchard is very unwilling you should bear thistles.

If I haven't anything to write, I am just as anxious to 'take my pen in hand' as though I had a message to deliver, a cause to plead, or a problem to unfold. Nothing but writing rests me; only then do I seem completely myself!

You may have noted the fact that it is a person's virtues as often as his vices that make him difficult to live with.

There is a kind of magicness about going far away and then coming back all changed.

There is nothing so debilitating to a naturally weak sense of humor as selling tickets behind a grating.

There are certain narrow, umimaginative, and autocratic old people who seem to call out the most mischievous and sometimes the worst traits in children.

Bear figs for a season or two, and the world outside the orchard is very unwilling you should bear thistles.