To praise one thing is not to damn another.

What do you do with mother love and mother wit when the babies are grown and gone away?

The woman was sane; she accepted the heavy penalties of reality and enjoyed its gifts also.

A nut is someone whose noose broke.

A humane and authentic book written by another voice from the trenches.

Money in the hand is real - coins and bills. The rest I don't believe in, and I don't think I ever did, really. What's a check, after all, but a promise - mine, the bank's. Me, I know, but the bank?

all children blackmail their parents with their innocence.