I'd like to go by climbing a birch tree~ And climb black branches up a snow-white trunk Toward heaven, till the tree could bear no more, But dipped its top and set me down again. That would be good both going and coming back. One could do worse than be a swinger of birches.

By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day.

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

Don't be agnostic - be something.

I never feel more at home than at a ballgame.

A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.

The sun was warm but the wind was chill. You know how it is with an April day.