A writer is an organism that will go on writing even after its heart has been cut out.

There it was, there it is, the place where during the best time of our lives friendship had its home and happiness its headquarters.

We do not write what we know; we write what we want to find out.

Every book that anyone sets out on is a voyage of discovery that may discover nothing. Any voyager may be lost at sea, like John Cabot. Nobody can teach the geography of the undiscovered. All he can do is encourge the will to explore, plus impress upon the inexperienced a few of the dos and don'ts of voyaging.

You married me...but you didn't marry what you could make out of me.

No life goes past so swiftly as an eventless one, no clock spins like a clock whose days are all alike.

It is somethingit can be everything-to have found a fellow bird with whom you can sit among the rafters while the drinking and boasting and reciting and fighting go on below.