When one has the right swing and enthusiasm, selling is not unlike hunting, a veritable sport. To scare up the game by preliminary talk and to know how long to follow it, to lose your gain through poorly directed argument, to hang on to game that finally eludes, to boldly confront, to quickly circle around, to keep on the trail, tireless and keen, till you have bagged some orders, there is some satisfaction in returning at night, tired of the trail, but proud of the days work done.

You know being born is important to you. You know nothing else was ever so important to you.

The marvelous rebellion of man at all signs reading "Keep Off.

We had two grand antique professors who had been teaching at Lombard since before I was born.

Arithmetic is where numbers fly like pigeons in and out of your head.

Ordering a man to write a poem is like commanding a pregnant woman to give birth to a red-headed child.

Hope is an echo, hope ties itself yonder, yonder.