But you cant get all hung up on details when you are trying to survive.
A cat and a Bible, and nobody needs to be lonely.
The author lives with one foot in an everyday world and the other feeling about anxiously for a foothold in another more precarious one.
Of one thing the reader can be certain: the more easily anything reads, the harder it has been to write.
Courage was America's watchword, but a courage of the body rather than of the soul - physical courage, not moral.
I hate those men who would send into war youth to fight and die for them; the pride and cowardice of those old men, making their wars that boys must die.
. . . if one can remember without loving, then couldn't one love without remembering?
Allow your passion to become your purpose, and it will one day become your profession.
Discover your divinity, find your unique talent, serve humanity with it.
I had been fed, in my youth, a lot of old wives' tales about the way men would instantly forsake a beautiful woman to flock around a brilliant one. It is but fair to say that, after getting out in the world, I had never seen this happen. " [From a column dated November 17, 1928]
I would have tested the furniture if they'd asked me.