You don’t want a general houseworker, do you? Or a traveling companion, quiet, refined, speaks fluent French entirely in the present tense? Or an assistant billiard-maker? Or a private librarian? Or a lady car-washer? Because if you do, I should appreciate your giving me a trial at the job. Any minute now, I am going to become one of the Great Unemployed. I am about to leave literature flat on its face. I don’t want to review books any more. It cuts in too much on my reading.

Four things I am wiser to know: Idleness, sorrow, a friend, and a foe.

Somebody was using the pencil.

Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch it and it darts away.

Daily dawns another day; I must up, to make my way. Though I dress and drink and eat, Move my fingers and my feet, Learn a little, here and there, Weep and laugh and sweat and swear, Hear a song, or watch a stage, Leave some words upon a page, Claim a foe, or hail a friend- Bed awaits me at the end.

Flowers are heaven's masterpiece.

Four be the things I'd have been better without: love, curiosity, freckles and doubt.