Never will a time come when the most marvelous recent invention is as marvelous as a newborn child.

To never see a fool you lock yourself in your room and smash the looking-glass.

And how should a beautiful, ignorant stream of water know it heads for an early release — out across the desert, running toward the Gulf, below sea level, to murmur its lullaby, and see the Imperial Valley rise out of burning sand with cotton blossoms, wheat, watermelons, roses, how should it know?

I glory in this world of men and women, torn with troubles, yet living on to love and laugh through it all.

I tell you the past is a bucket of ashes, so live not in your yesterdays, no just for tomorrow, but in the here and now. Keep moving and forget the post mortems; and remember, no one can get the jump on the future.

You remember some bedrooms you have slept in. There are bedrooms you like to remember and others you would like to forget.

The sea speaks a language polite people never repeat. It is a colossal scavenger slang and has no respect.