When all things are equal, translucence in writing is more effective than transparency, just as glow is more revealing than glare.

She wasn't much to look at but she was something to think about.

A peril of the night road is that flecks of dust and streaks of bug blood on the windshield look to me like old admirals in uniform, or crippled apple women, or the front edge of barges, and I whirl out of their way, thus going into ditches and fields and up on front lawns, endangering the life of authentic admirals and apple women who may be out on the roads for a breath of air before retiring.

Mutual suspicions of mental inadequacy are common during the first year of any marriage.

Though statisticians in our time have never kept the score, Man wants a great deal here below and Woman even more.

I am not a cat man, but a dog man, and all felines can tell this at a glance - a sharp, vindictive glance.

Last night I dreamed of a small consolation enjoyed only by the blind: Nobody knows the trouble I've not seen!