Every good thing in the world stands on the razor-edge of danger.

The best part of married life is the fights. The rest is merely so-so.

A living is made, Mr Kemper, by selling something that everybody needs at least once a year.Yes, sir! And a million ismade by producing something that everybody needs every day.You artists produce something that nobody needs at any time.

Good-by, Good-by, world. Good-by, Grover's Corners... Mama and Papa. Good-by to clocks ticking... and Mama's sunflowers. And food and coffee. And new-ironed dresses and hot baths...and sleeping and waking up. Oh, earth, you're too wonderful for anybody to realize you.

The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than the procreation of children.

Either we live by accident and die by accident, or we live by plan and die by plan.

The future author is one who discovers that language, the exploration and manipulation of the resources of language, will serve him in winning through to his way.