It takes a small town to keep you humble.
I was brought up Irish, where there was room for my own private world.
I've felt that if I just used initials nobody would know whether I was a man or a woman, a dog or a tiger. I could hide from view, like a bat on the underside of a branch.
Stories are like birds flying, here and gone in a moment.
It may be that to eat and be eaten are the same thing in the end. My wisdom tells me that this is probably so. We are all made of the same stuff, remember, we of the Jungle, you of the City. The same substance composes us-the tree overhead, the stone beneath us, the bird, the beast, the star-we are all one, all moving to the same end. Remember that when you no longer remember me, my child.
I think the idea of Mary Poppins has been blowing in and out of me, like a curtain at a window, all my life.
Don't you know that everybody's got a Fairyland of their own?
When people talk to us about others they are usually dull. When they talk to us about themselves they are nearly always interesting.
For me, trees have always been the most penetrating preachers.
The most exquisite pleasure in the practice of medicine comes from nudging a layman in the direction of terror, then bringing him back to safety again.
Socialism and communism are set up so that a select few elite get most of everything and the rest of society is equally miserable in poverty and oppression. So if you can be in the ruling party elite, socialism, communism, you've got it made. That's less than one half of one-tenth a percent of the population in those countries.