I manage to think twice about everything / Why will they like me as they do / Or not as they do / Why will they praise me as they do / Or praise me not not as they do.

Near a war is always not very near.

More and more I like to take a train. I understand why the French prefer it to automobiling it is so much more sociable, and of course these days so much more of an adventure, and the irregularity of its regularity is fascinating.

If things happen all the time you are never nervous. It is when they are not happening that you are nervous.

As there was never any question there was never any answer.

There is too much fathering going on just now and there is no doubt about it fathers are depressing.

Too few is as many as too many.