Cherry cobbler is shortcake with a soul.

I never would just open a door and walk through, I had to bust it down for the hell of it. I just naturally liked doing things the hard way.

Emma McChesney was engaged in that nerve-wracking process known as getting things out of the way. When Emma McChesney aimed to get things out of the way she did not use a shovel; she used a road-drag.

A writer's working hours are his waking hours. He is working as long as he is conscious and frequently when he isn't.

In New York the sky is bluer, and the grass is greener, and the girls are prettier, and the steaks are thicker, and the buildings are higher, and the streets are wider, and the air is finer, than the sky, or the grass, or the girls, or the steaks, or the air of any place else in the world.

I suppose it is a gift, being young, but it isn't special. We've all got it, early in life.

... home isn't always the place where you were born and bred. Home is the place where your everyday clothes are, and where somebody or something needs you.