Humanity has been passing through a gray and desolate time of confusion.

But a man needs company.

In poverty she is envious. In riches she may be a snob. Money does not change the sickness, only the symptoms

Hard-covered books break up friendships. You loan a hard covered book to a friend and when he doesn’t return it you get mad at him. It makes you mean and petty. But twenty-five cent books are different.

Ever'body's askin' that. "What we comin' to?" Seems to me we don't never come to nothin'. Always on the way.

Are cats strange animals or do they so resemble us that we find them curious as we do monkeys?

It's almost impossible to read a fine thing without wanting to do a fine thing.