All there is to writing is having ideas. To learn to write is to learn to have ideas.

All those who try to go it sole alone, Too proud to be beholden for relief, Are absolutely sure to come to grief.

Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.

Nature does not complete things. She is chaotic. Man must finish, and he does so by making a garden and building a wall.

How many things have to happen to you before something occurs to you?

I am a writer of books in retrospect. I talk in order to understand; I teach in order to learn.

Before I built a wall I'd ask to know What I was walling in or walling out, And to whom I was like to give offence. Something there is that doesn't love a wall, That wants it down.