There must be a magnificent disregard of your reader, for if he cannot follow you, there is nothing you can do about it.

...as for helping me in the outside world, the Convent taught me only that if you spit on a pencil eraser, it will erase ink.

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.

Because your eyes are slant and slow, Because your hair is sweet to touch, My heart is high again; but oh, I doubt if this will get me much.

A liberal is a man who leaves the room before the fight starts.

Well, there are always those who cannot distinguish between glitter and glamour . . . the glamour of Isadora Duncan came from her great, torn, bewildered, foolhardy soul.

And I'll stay off Verlaine too; he was always chasing Rimbauds.