The greatest thing in family life is to take a hint when a hint is intended-and not to take a hint when a hint isn't intended.

We're either nothing or a God's regret.

There are tones of voices that mean more than words.

I'd like to get away from earth awhile / And then come back to it and begin over.

But he had gone his way, the grass all mown, And I must be, as he had been - alone, As all must be, I said within my heart, Whether they work together or apart.

Life is tons of discipline. Your first discipline is your vocabulary; then your grammar and your punctuation Then, in your exuberance and bounding energy you say you're going to add to that. Then you add rhyme and meter. And your delight is in that power.

I cut my own hair. I got sick of barbers because they talk too much. And too much of their talk was about my hair coming out.