The songs of our ancestors are also the songs of our children
I've longed for kids since I was very, very young.
I opened a restaurant that had nothing but California wines.
Books are the blessed chloroform of the mind.
The essence of play is that the sequence of actions is fluid and scattered.
La grandeza concreta de la poesía, como la de la vida, consiste en no estar hecha.
Cadets can neither be treated as schoolboys or soldiers.
No special writing rituals. And my desk is usually cluttered.
It is a pledge that senility has not the last say in everything.
Distraction wastes our energy, concentration restores it.
...'being published’ is not the same as being a real writer.
The word Chivalry is derived from the French cheval, a horse.
To receive everything, one must open one's hands and give.
Good is not good, where better is expected.
I don't think of sex as a self-destructive impulse.
We tend to put poems into factions. And it restricts our reading.
I don't read the Sunday papers; or the dailies, either.
We like to believe our fashion is growing.
I consciously try not to play favorites with my characters or my books.
I want my prose to be as clear as a pane of glass.
If you are prepared, you will be confident, and will do the job.
