And when I think about that, I think that if nothing but being married will help a man, he's durn nigh hopeless.

Don Quixote — I read that every year, as some do the Bible.

I discovered that my own little postage stamp of native soil was worth writing about and that I would never live long enough to exhaust it.

When I have one martini, I feel bigger, wiser, taller. When I have a second, I feel superlative. When I have more, there's no holding me.

All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection.

Every man has a different idea of what's beautiful, and it's best to take the gesture, the shadow of the branch, and let the mind create the tree.

It is the writer's privilege to help man endure by lifting his heart.