John Gould

I don't read anything anymore. I don't have the eyesight. I read my own copy, that's all. I think I've read everything that's worth reading.

I don't think a really good pie can be made without a dozen or so children peeking over your shoulder as you stoop to look in at it every little while.

If you don't fix latent failures in your system, you're asking for trouble.

It stands quite alone the solitary species of its genus.

A lecture is an occasion when you numb one end to benefit the other.

At the time the world was all upside down. The American people were beginning to move around a lot. The old hometown ties had been pretty much broken. The theme of Farmer Takes a Wife appealed to people. Everybody was homesick. And it sold and sold and sold.

Our great American writers were all newspaper people.