The ear is the only true writer and the only true reader.

Forgive me my nonsense, as I also forgive the nonsense of those that think they talk sense.

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

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.

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.

Keats mourned that the rainbow, which as a boy had been for him a magic thing, had lost its glory because the physicists had found it resulted merely from the refraction of the sunlight by the raindrops. Yet knowledge of its causation could not spoil the rainbow for me. I am sure that it is not given to man to be omniscient. There will always be something left to know, something to excite the imagination of the poet and those attuned to the great world in which they live (p. 64)

One could do worse than be a swinger of birches.