Writing is just work-there's no secret. If you dictate or use a pen or type or write with your toes-it's still just work.

There was much conversation, most of which sounded like the rest of it.

Intellectually I know that America is no better than any other country; emotionally I know she is better than every other country.

Most troubles are unnecessary. We have Nature beaten; we can make her grow wheat; we can keep warm when she sends blizzards. So we raise the devil just for pleasure--wars, politics, race-hatreds, labor-disputes.

In everything was the spirit of children's play - not the rule-ridden, time-killing play of adults that is a preparation for death, but the busy and credulous play of children that is a preparation for life.

Pugnacity is a form of courage, but a very bad form.

A man takes a drink, the drink takes another, and the drink takes the man.