Not all speed is movement.

We have not been scuffling in this waste - howling wilderness for the right to be stupid. All this waste.

I try to live [the Golden Rule] and I certainly expect it of some particular others. But I'll be damned if I want most folk out there to do unto me what they do unto themselves.

Write a lot and hit the streets. A writer who doesn't keep up with what's out there ain't gonna be out there.

Old folks are the nation.

She [my mother] gave me permission to wonder, to dawdle, to daydream.

There are times ... when any visitor - in person, by phone, by mail - is an intruder, a burglar, a space hogger, an oxygen taker, a chaos maker, a conflict inducer, a mood chaser, and a total drag.