I knew I would stay in this town when I found the blue enamel pot floating in the lake. The pot led me to the house, the house led me to the book, the book to the lawyer, the lawyer to the whorehouse, the whorehouse to science, and from science I joi...
Through the round of many births I roamed without reward, without rest, seeking the house-builder. Painful is birth again & again. House-builder, you're seen! You will not build a house again. All your rafters broken, the ridge pole destroyed, gone t...
Homes should mean something to us humans. They are a basic instinct. A home, with a life that centers only on food and sleep, is not really a home, it's a house. Beauty and graciousness, joy of living, being used in every part, these are the things t...
I doubt if there are many normal women who can resist looking at houses. I believe, in fact, that when a house is up for sale more than half the people who look over it are not prospective buyers, but merely ladies who cannot resist exploring someone...
Space is a precious thing to waste. You don't want to fill your house with anything that doesn't directly add to your happiness.
If you look at people who seek a lot of care in American cities for multiple illnesses, it's usually people with a number of overwhelming illnesses and a lot of social problems, like housing instability, unemployment, lack of insurance, lack of housi...
I was very lucky to be offered a lovely piece of property to build a career on. I started building a house on it, but it wasn't necessarily a house I would want to live in. So I ripped down that house, and I worked with these great lumberjacks to bui...
Young men think old men are fools, but old men know young men are fools.
Lay this unto your breast: Old friends, like old swords, still are trusted best.
I think old people should just be old and go away.
I continue to be interested in new things that seem old and old things that seem new.
The real menace in dealing with a five-year-old is that in no time at all you begin to sound like a five-year-old.
My youth was the most stubborn, peremptory part of myself. In my most relaxed moments, it governed my being. It pricked up its ears at the banter of eighteen-year-olds on the street. It frankly examined their bodies. It did not know its place: that m...
When the mind is exhausted of images, it invents its own.
Twelve minutes. I can give you that.
So now I get the scepter?" Jason asked. Cupid laughed.
Is this guy Love or Death?" Jason growled. Cupid said.
Company is a burden to those at home in the solitude of their souls.
The White House alone cannot hold its opponents accountable.
The p'int of good writing is to know when to stop.
What men call the shadow of the body is not the shadow of the body, but is the body of the soul.
