A child's spirit is like a child, you can never catch it by running after it; you must stand still, and, for love, it will soon itself come back.

Whoever is writing in the United States is using the American Dream as an ironical pole of his story. People elsewhere tend to accept, to a far greater degree anyway, that the conditions of life are hostile to mans pretensions.

Charley: He won't starve. None a them starve. Forget about him. Willy: Then what have I got to remember?

Certainly the most diverse, if minor, pastime of literary life is the game of Find the Author.

More Weight -Giles Corey-

Life is an endless, truly endless struggle. There's no time when we're going to arrive at a plateau where the whole thing gets sorted. It's a struggle in the way every plant has to find it's own way to stand up straight. A lot of the time it's a failure. And yet it's not a failure if some enlightenment comes from it.

It is rare for people to be asked the question which puts them squarely in front of themselves