“It takes a lot of time to be a genius. You have to sit around so much, doing nothing, really doing nothing.”

“Nothing is really so very frightening when everything is so very dangerous”

“So many words to use. Oh do not say that words have a use.”

“I certainly do care for you Jeff Campbell less than you are always thinking and much more than you are ever knowing”

“twenty-five years run around so quickly but thirty one years is a long time.”

“I always say that you cannot tell what a picture really is or what an object really is until you dust it every day and you cannot tell what a book is until you type it or proof-read it. It then does something to you that only reading it never can do.”

“I really do not know that anything has ever been more exciting than diagramming sentences.”