Every action is an idea before it is an action, and perhaps a feeling before it is an idea, and every idea rests upon other ideas that have preceded it in time.

This early piece of the morning is mine.

History is not the proper midden for digging up novelties. Perhaps that is one reason why a nation bent on novelty ignores it.

Be proud of every scar on your heart, each one holds a lifetime’s worth of lessons.

Towns are like people. Old ones often have character, the new ones are interchangeable.

Young writers should be encouraged to write, and discouraged from thinking they are writers. If they arrive at college with literary ambitions, they should be told that everything they have done since their first childhood poems, printed in the school paper, has been preparation for entering a long, long apprenticeship.

Youth hasn't got anything to do with chronological age. It's times of hope and happiness.