"I'm a lazy writer. My idea of heaven is not writing. On the other hand, I'm obviously compulsive about it."

"So I wanted to say she's safe and sound. And for those of you who are still concerned, I saw her this morning for the last time — and her whole face here, which was ravaged and gone, seemingly, was no…"

"The sky is the 'source of light' in nature, and governs every thing. Even our common observations on the weather of every day, are suggested by them, but it does not occur to us. Their difficulty in p…"

"This leads to my next myth—the myth that government can spend money at nobody’s expense. What was really involved in that last story was that somehow the local people do not pay out the money coming d…"

"'Poems Chiefly from Manuscript'"