quotes about Post Office

“Right now I'm so old that if I had a big gush of money, I don't know what I'd do with it. I don't travel anymore. I don't need anything, don't want anything. I'd give it to my son, I guess, and let him enjoy it.”

“Why buy repeater carbines and nuclear armament - if this is kept at home a child can play with it”

“Imagination should be integrated with life, not turned into a separate activity, art, that monopolizes one's whole existence.”

Source : Collected in Notebooks 1960-1994 (1994).

“Unfortunately, the greatest photographers don't pay extreme attention to the clothes. If they decide to put a dress in a bathtub or in front of a cow in the countryside with dirt everywhere, well, the dresses come back... ready to be put in the garbage.”

Source : Harper's Bazaar Interview, www.harpersbazaar.com.au. August 10, 2010.

“No one grows old by living - only by losing interest in living.”

Source : Marie Beynon Lyons Ray (1948). “How to conquer your handicaps”, Indianapolis

“The greatest efforts in sports came when the mind is as still as a glass lake.”

“Killing time takes practice.”

“Sometimes there's not a better way. Sometimes there's only the hard way.”

Source : Mary E. Pearson (2011). “The Fox Inheritance”, p.201, Henry Holt and Company (BYR)

“That process by which you become a writer is a pretty lonely one. We don't have a group apprenticeship like a violinist might training for an orchestra.”

“There’s only one thing worse than not satisfying a desire. And that is not to feel any desire.”