Few enjoy noisy overcrowded functions. But they are a gesture of goodwill on the part of host or hostess, and also on the part of guests who submit to them.

But suppose, asks the student of the professor, we follow all your structural rules for writing, what about that something else that brings the book alive? What is the formula for that? The formula for that is not included in the curriculum.

It would be a fallacy to deduce that the slow writer necessarily comes up with superior work. There seems to be scant relationshipbetween prolificness and quality.

A woman has to be twice as good as a man to go half as far.

[Wishing her mother had named her Beulah:] At least you did not sit on your beulah.

It takes a clever man to turn cynic and a wise man to be clever enough not to.

Life owes me a living worth living. Yes, Eden regarded life as her debtor, she its relentless paymaster.