People permit life to slide past them like a deft pickpocket, their purse-not yet missed and now too late-in his hand.

Cherry cobbler is shortcake with a soul.

Writing, to be memorable, must be done in a state of impassioned serenity.

The astronomers tell us that other planets are gifted with two - four - even nine lavish moons. Imagine the romantic possibilities of nine moons.

When a new post-war generation has grown to puberty and to youth and to manhood and womanhood, it should read, and it should be realistically told, of the futility, the idiocy, the utter depravity of war. For that matter, this instruction could begin at the age of six with the taking of those toy guns out of those toy holsters and throwing them in the ash-cans where they belong.

Men often marry their mothers.

Being an old maid is like death by drowning, a really delightful sensation after you cease to struggle.