One could do worse than be a swinger of birches.

The best things and best people rise out of their separateness; I'm against a homogenized society because I want the cream to rise.

I never dared to be radical when young for fear it would make me conservative when old.

People who read me seem to be divided into four groups: twenty-five percent like me for the right reasons; twenty-five percent like me for the wrong reasons; twenty-five percent hate me for the wrong reasons; twenty-five percent hate me for the right reasons. It's that last twenty-five percent that worries me.

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveler, long I stood And looked down one as far as I could To where it bent in the undergrowth.

I hate the idea that you ought to read the whole of anybody.

Talking is a hydrant in the yard and writing is a faucet upstairs in the house. Opening the first takes the pressure off the second.