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Everything in life is somewhere else, and you get there in a car.

Fro-Joy - 1940.

The future, wave or no wave, seems to me no unified dream but a mince pie, long in the baking, never quite done.

A review of The Wave of the Future by Anne Morrow Lindbergh in Harpers Magazine - December 1940.

I am still encouraged to go on. I wouldn't know where else to go.

Paris Review Interview - 1969. Interview with George Plimpton and Frank Crowther, Writers at Work: The Paris Review Interviews, series eight - Viking Penguin - 1988.

It is easier for a man to be loyal to his club than to his planet; the bylaws are shorter, and he is personally acquainted with the other members.

Intimations - 1941.

In order to read one must sit down, usually indoors. I am restless and would rather sail a boat than crack a book. I've never had a very lively literary curiosity, and it has sometimes seemed to me that I am not really a literary fellow at all. Except that I write for a living.

Paris Review Interview - 1969. Interview with George Plimpton and Frank Crowther, Writers at Work: The Paris Review Interviews, series eight - Viking Penguin - 1988.

Children are game for anything. I throw them hard words, and they backhand them over the net. They love words that give them a hard time, provided they are in a context that absorbs their attention.

Paris Review Interview - 1969. Interview with George Plimpton and Frank Crowther, Writers at Work: The Paris Review Interviews, series eight - Viking Penguin - 1988.

Children are demanding. They are the most attentive, curious, eager, observant, sensitive, quick, and generally congenial readers on earth. They accept, almost without question, anything you present them with, as long as it is presented honestly, fearlessly, and clearly.

Paris Review Interview - 1969. Interview with George Plimpton and Frank Crowther, Writers at Work: The Paris Review Interviews, series eight - Viking Penguin - 1988.

New York is part of the natural world. I love the city, I love the country, and for the same reasons. The city is part of the country. When I had an apartment on East Forty-Eighth Street, my backyard during the migratory season yielded more birds than I ever saw in Maine.

Paris Review Interview - 1969. Interview with George Plimpton and Frank Crowther, Writers at Work: The Paris Review Interviews, series eight - Viking Penguin - 1988.