When you have shot one bird flying you have shot all birds flying. They are all different and they fly in different ways but the sensation is the same and the last one is as good as the first.

I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.

There are events which are so great that if a writer has participated in them his obligation is to write truly rather than assume the presumption of altering them with invention.

The game of golf would lose a great deal if croquet mallets and billiard cues were allowed on the putting green.

Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.

The only thing that could spoil a day was people. People were always the limiters of happiness except for the very few that were as good as spring itself.

I've tried to reduce profanity but I reduced so much profanity when writing the book that I'm afraid not much could come out. Perhaps we will have to consider it simply as a profane book and hope that the next book will be less profane or perhaps more sacred.

Cowardice... is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend functioning of the imagination.

An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools.

I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.