Why the Egyptian, Arabic, Abyssinian, Choctaw? Well, what tongue does the wind talk? What nationality is a storm? What country do rains come from? What color is lightning? Where does thunder goe when it dies?

You ask Why to a lot of things and you wind up very unhappy indeed, if you keep at it. The poor girl's better off dead

Television is very dangerous. Because it repeats and repeats and repeats our disasters, instead of our triumphs.

Dandelion wine. The words were summer on the tongue. The wine was summer caught and stoppered...sealed away for opening on a January day with snow falling fast and the sun unseen for weeks.

I think the only way we can grow and get on in this world is to accept the fact we're not perfect and live accordingly.

How many times can a man go down and still be alive?

The local TV news is the greatest danger in your life. It's all crap.