Why must all of the operations in life be performed without an anesthetic?

When spring came, even the false spring, there were no problems except where to be happiest.

I am glad we do not have to try to kill the stars.

Read anything I write for the pleasure of reading it. Whatever else you find will be the measure of what you brought to the reading.

In war, one cannot say what one feels.

What I learned constructive about women, not just ethics like never blame them if they pox you because somebody poxed them and lots of times they don't even know they have it — that's in the first reader for squares — is, no matter how they get, always think of them the way they were on the best day they ever had.

A serious writer is not to be confounded with a solemn writer. A serious writer may be a hawk or a buzzard or even a popinjay, but a solemn writer is always a bloody owl.