I'm too shy, really to be able to hang out with my heroes for too long.
The older women were Sunbeams and I guess we were Cherubs or Lambs, but our mothers were Nightingales.
I keep going over a sentence. I nag it, gnaw it, pat and flatter it.
Genius is immediate, but talent takes time.
In the history of art there are periods when bread seems so beautiful that it nearly gets into museums.
Never have nights been more beautiful than these nights of anxiety. In the sky have been shining in trinity the moon, Venus and Mars. Nature has been more splendid than man.
. . . people who don't want something are less likely to get it than people who do want something.
God help the man who won't marry until he finds a perfect woman, and God help him still more if he finds her.
My writing is done in railroad yards while waiting for a freight, in the fields while waiting for a truck, and at noon after lunch. Towns are too distracting.
I am proposing to you as a rallying emblem the letter V, because V is the first letter of the words 'Victoire' in French, and 'Vrijheid' in Flemish. . . the Victory which will give us back our freedom, the Victory of our good friends the English. Their word for Victory also begins with V. As you see, things fit all round.
I think I could have become an outstanding professional baseball player, but I don't think I could have reached the heights that I have in football - being one of the very top players in the game, being a world champion.