I think I write in order to discover on my shelf a new book that I would enjoy reading, or to see a new play that would engross me.

Love is an energy which exists of itself. It is its own value.

Money is like manure; it's not worth a thing unless it's spread around encouraging young things to grow.

Favors cease to be favors when there are conditions attached to them.

I've never forgotten for long at a time that living is struggle. I know that every good and excellent thing in the world stands moment by moment on the razor-edge of danger and must be fought for - whether it's a field, or a home, or a country.

A sense of humor judges one's actions and the actions of others from a wider reference. It pardons shortcomings, it consoles failure.

Literature is the orchestration of platitudes.