All we need is a meteorologist who has once been soaked to the skin without ill effect. No one can write knowingly of the weather who walks bent over on wet days. |
I see nothing in space as promising as the view from a Ferris wheel. |
We should all do what, in the long run, gives us joy, even if it is only picking grapes or sorting the laundry. |
I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day. |
I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens. |
It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer. |
A good farmer is nothing more nor less than a handy man with a sense of humus. |
The world is full of people who have never, since childhood, met an open doorway with an open mind. |
Writing is an act of faith, not a trick of grammar. |
One of the most time-consuming things is to have an enemy. |
Old age is a special problem for me because I've never been able to shed the mental image I have of myself - a lad of about 19. |
The world organization debates disarmament in one room and, in the next room, moves the knights and pawns that make national arms imperative. |
Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time. |
Writing is hard work and bad for the health. |
The only sense that is common in the long run, is the sense of change and we all instinctively avoid it. |
It is easier for a man to be loyal to his club than to his planet; the bylaws are shorter, and he is personally acquainted with the other members. |
Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it. |
To perceive Christmas through its wrappings becomes more difficult with every year. |
Whatever else an American believes or disbelieves about himself, he is absolutely sure he has a sense of humor. |
Prejudice is a great time saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts. |