He went on about monsters, sleeping in great caverns underground and especially under the sea, waiting for a chance to take over the surface world.
The mind has exactly the same power as the hands; not merely to grasp the world, but to change it.
To write what is worth publishing, to find honest people to publish it, and get sensible people to read it, are the three great difficulties in being an author.
The knack of flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.
As my mother and 1 were alone in the world, and as I was to be a business man, it was decided that I had better not waste time in going to college.
Call no man foe, but never love a stranger.
Real people are places to me as much as persons: I want to see them, as I want to see the places I am fond of, in all weathers and at all times of the year.
People and places are the source of my work, both in prose and verse-and this remark is not the truism it seems, for I do not distinguish as sharply between a place and a person as most people seem to do.
Country people give me more than writers, and country places than towns.
Christmas... is not an eternal event at all, but a piece of one's home that one carries in one's heart.