There is one thing more exasperating than a wife who can cook and won't, and that's a wife who can't cook and will.

The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office.

Men work together, whether they work together or apart.

I have stood still and stopped the sound of feet When far away an interrupted cry Came over houses from another street, But not to call me back or say good-bye.

Thinking isn't agreeing or disagreeing. That's voting.

I was under twenty when I deliberately put it to myself one night after good conversation that there are moments when we actually touch in talk what the best writing can only come near. The curse of our book language is not so much that it keeps forever to the same set phrases . . . but that it sounds forever with the same reading tones. We must go out into the vernacular for tones that haven't been brought to book.

A voice said, Look me in the stars And tell me truly, men of earth, If all the soul-and-body scars Were not too much to pay for birth.