From morning till night, sounds drift from the kitchen, most of them familiar and comforting. . . . On days when warmth is the most important need of the human heart, the kitchen is the place you can find it; it dries the wet sock, it cools the hot little brain.

English usage is sometimes more than mere taste, judgment and education - sometimes it's sheer luck, like getting across the street.

I don't understand it, and I don't like what I don't understand.

The critic leaves at curtain fall To find, in starting to review it, He scarcely saw the play at all For starting to review it.

Even now; with a thousand little voyages notched in my belt. I still feel a memorial chill on casting off.

It is quite possible that an animal has spoken to me and that I didn't catch the remark because I wasn't paying attention.

The trouble with the profit system has always been that it was highly unprofitable to most people.