I wonder how many men, hiding their youngness, rise as I do, Saturday mornings, filled with the hope that Bugs Bunny, Yosemite Sam and Daffy Duck will be there waiting as our one true always and forever salvation?

If someone sends you a love letter you've got to answer back.

I like to smell things and look at things, and sometimes stay up all night, walking, and watch the sun rise.

To feed your Muse, then, you should always have been hungry about life since you were a child. If not, it is a little late to start.

Remember, the firemen are rarely necessary. The public itself stopped reading of its own accord.

With school turning out more runners, jumpers, racers, tinkerers, grabbers, snatchers, fliers, and swimmers instead of examiners, critics, knowers, and imaginative creators, the word 'intellectual,' of course, became the swear word it deserved to be.

The minute you get a religion you stop thinking. Believe in one thing too much and you have no room for new ideas.