You do what you can, and you do it because you should. But all you can do is all you can do.

It may be that this autobiography [Aimee Semple McPherson's] is set down in sincerity, frankness, and simple effort. It may be, too, that the Statue of Liberty is situated in Lake Ontario.

There are times when images blow to fluff, and comparisons stiffen and shrivel.

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

I don't know much about being a millionaire, but I'll bet I'd be darling at it.

I like best to have one book in my hand, and a stack of others on the floor beside me, so as to know the supply of poppy and mandragora will not run out before the small hours.

[On being told party guests were ducking for apples:] There, but for a typographical error, is the story of my life.