Largeness is a lifelong matter. You grow because you are not content not to. You are like a beaver that chews constantly because if it doesn't, it's teeth grow long and lock. You grow because you are a grower; you're large because you can't stand to be small.

If you avoid the killer diseases and keep the degenerative ones under control with sensible diet and exercise and whatever chemotherapy you need to stay in balance, you can live nearly forever.

In fiction I think we should have no agenda but to tell the truth.

A teacher enlarges people in all sorts of ways besides just his subject matter.

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

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

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