it is all very well for you to write simply and the simpler the better. But do not start to think so damned simply. Know how complicated it is and then state it simply.

My life used to be full of everything. Now if you aren't with me I haven't a thing in the world.

The cat has complete emotional honesty - an attribute not often found in humans.

Summer is a discouraging time to work - you don't feel death coming on the way it does in the fall when the boys really put pen to paper.

I hate a cramp, he thought. It is a treachery of one's own body.

Now is no time to think of what you do not have. Think of what you can do with that there is

People fall in love, but have to climb out.