don't you hate people who say they're not complaining and then complain?

Men often marry their mothers.

Cherry cobbler is shortcake with a soul.

A stricken tree, a living thing, so beautiful, so dignified, so admirable in its potential longevity, is, next to man, perhaps the most touching of wounded objects.

I think that in order to write really well and convincingly, one must be somewhat poisoned by emotion.

Books should be cherished, like children, books are for the next generation, like children, like history.

No woman ought to pretend she's intelligent. And if she is she ought to have the intelligence to pretend she isn't.