The first thing I do in any town I come to is ask if it has a bookstore.

The people I am most afraid of are those who are the most afraid.

The difference between a job and a career is the difference between forty and sixty hours a week.

A definite purpose, like blinders on a horse, inevitably narrows its possessor's point of view.

By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day.

A poem may be worked over once it is in being, but may not be worried into being.

I came from a very intellectual neighborhood. When we played cowboys and Indians as kids, I had to be Gandhi.