I am neither Christian enough nor charitable enough to like anybody just because he is alive and breathing. I want people to interest or amuse me. I want them fascinating and witty or so dul as to be different. I want them either intellectually stimulating or wonderfully corny; perfectly charming or hundred percent stinker. I like my chosen companions to be distinguishable from the undulating masses and I don't care how.

a grudge will soon rot the pocket you carry it in.

The coffee was so strong it snarled as it lurched out of the pot.

Gammy used to say, 'Too much scrubbing takes the life right out of things.'

There’s nothing as cozy as a piece of candy and a book.

Dare we face the question of just how much of the darkness around us is of our own making?

In the country, weather is as important as food and sometimes means the difference between life and death.