“Golf is so popular simply because it is the best game in the world at which to be bad.”

Rivers know this: there is no hurry. We shall get there some day.

If one is to be called a liar, one may as well make an effort to deserve the name.

They’re funny things, Accidents. You never have them till you’re having them.

Sometimes, if you stand on the bottom rail of a bridge and lean over to watch the river slipping slowly away beneath you, you will suddenly know everything there is to be known.

Sometimes the smallest things take up the most room in your heart.

Weeds are flowers, too, once you get to know them.

Sometimes I sits and thinks, and sometimes I just sits.

One of the advantages of being disorganized is that one is always having surprising discoveries.

Good judgment comes from experience, and experience – well, that comes from poor judgment.

When you do the things that you can do, you will find a way.

A writer wants something more than money for his work: he wants permanence.

You will be better advised to watch what we do instead of what we say.

A Proper Tea is much nicer than a Very Nearly Tea, which is one you forget about afterwards.

Nobody can be uncheered with a balloon.

Some people care too much. I think it’s called love.

No sensible author wants anything but praise.

Something was badly amiss with the spiritual life of the planet, Too many demons inside people claiming to believe in God.

Men are always ready to die for us, but not to make our lives worth having. Cheap sentiment and bad logic.

Writing stopped being fun when I discovered the difference between good writing and bad and, even more terrifying, the difference between it and true art. And after that, the whip came down.

Give me unexpected whether it is good or bad, I learn from it all. As you build or break me in the end, I will stand tall.

For liberty hath a sharp and double edge, fit only to be handled by just and virtuous men; to bad and dissolute, it becomes a mischief unwieldy in their own hands.

Better to make a good future than predict a bad one.

I am very bad at expressing tender sentiments. The very word ‘love’ frightens me.

Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.