Not how the world is, but that it is, is the mystery.
First in violence, deepest in dirt, lawless, unlovely, ill-smelling, irreverent, new; an overgrown gawk of a - village, the "tough" among cities, a spectacle for the nation.
It is our knowledge - the things we are sure of - that makes the world go wrong and keeps us from seeing and learning.
My father seemed always to know not only what I was doing, but what I was being.
We need some great failures. Especially we ever-successful Americans - conscious, intelligent, illuminating failures.
My father would invite me sweetly to come and sit on a stool at his feet, and, as I let myself trustingly down, he would gently kick the seat from under me - and laugh.
The commercial spirit is the spirit of profit, not patriotism; of credit, not honor; of individual gain, not national prosperity; of trade and dickering, not principle.
I want to play interesting women.
Which is more dangerous: fanaticism or atheism? Fanaticism is certainly a thousand times more deadly; for atheism inspires no bloody passion whereas fanaticism does; atheism is opposed to crime and fanaticism causes crimes to be committed.
Give it up? Not likely. Besides, what else would I do? I totally should have gone to Hogwart's when I had the chance.
Bring ideas in and entertain them royally, for one of them may be the king.