"A tragic irony of life is that we so often achieve success or financial independence after the chief..." — Ellen Glasgow

There wouldn't be half as much fun in the world if it weren't for children and men, and there ain't a mite of difference between them under the skins.

Doesn't all experience crumble in the end to mere literary material?

I haven't much opinion of words. They're apt to set fire to a dry tongue, that's what I say.

Nothing in life is so hard that you can't make it easier by the way you take it.