Lookin' back is a bad habit.

I know what they said even if they would not say it to my face. People love to talk. They love to slander you if you have any substance.

One time you smash a bug with no mercy. Another time you find one helpless on his back with his legs flailing the air, and you flip him over and let him go on his way. The struggle that touches the heart.

If you want anything done right you will have to see to it yourself every time.

We must each of us bear our own misfortunes.

She gave me a pledge card, a card promising an annual gift of $5, $10, or $25 toward the support of the Unity mission. I filled it out under the hot light of the projector. The name and address spaces were much too short, unless you wrote a very fine hand or unless your name was Ed Poe and you lived at 1 Elm St.

As he drank, little brown drops of coffee clung to his mustache like dew. Men will live like billy goats if they are let alone.