If one by one we counted people out

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

Democracy is the best chance for the best people.

Nothing flatters me more than to have it assumed that I could write prose, unless it be to have it assumed that I once pitched a baseball with distinction.

You're always believing ahead of your evidence. What was the evidence I could write a poem? I just believed it. The most creative thing in us is to believe in a thing.

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.

If you remember only one thing I've said, remember that an idea is a feat of association, and the height of it is a good metaphor. If you have never made a good metaphor, then you don't know what it's all about.