Science is no more than an investigation of a miracle we can never explain, and art is an interpretation of that miracle.

You don't have to worry about the future, you don't worry about the past - you just explode.

And the odd think in Dad's voice was the sound truth makes being said.

An athlete may run ten thousand miles in order to prepare for one hundred yards. Quantity gives experience.

The river was mild and leisurely, going away from the people who ate shadows for breakfast and steam for lunch and vapors for supper.

I've never worked a day in my life. The joy of writing has propelled me from day to day and year to year. I want you to envy me, my joy. Get out of here tonight and say: 'Am I being joyful?' And if you've got a writer's block, you can cure it this evening by stopping whatever you're writing and doing something else. You picked the wrong subject.

Thinking little at all about nothing in particular.