You'll do what you think you want to do, or what you think you ought to do. If you're very lucky, luckier than anybody I know, the two will coincide.

It's easier to die than to move ... at least for the Other Side you don't need trunks.

[T]hat old September feeling, left over from school days, of summer passing, vacation nearly done, obligations gathering, books and football in the air ... Another fall, another turned page: there was something of jubilee in that annual autumnal beginning, as if last year's mistakes had been wiped clean by summer.

[I]t is dangerous for a bride to be apologetic about her husband.

Water is the true wealth in a dry land.

National parks are the best idea we ever had. Absolutely American, absolutely democratic, they reflect us at our best rather than our worst.

Young writers should be encouraged to write, and discouraged from thinking they are writers.