No one who is young is ever going to be old.

The study of history, while it does not endow with prophecy, may indicate lines of probability.

She had a dour Presbyterian mind and a code of morals that pinned down and beat the brains out of nearly everything that was pleasant to do.

And finally, in our time a beard is the one thing that a woman cannot do better than a man, or if she can her success is assured only in a circus.

We are lonesome animals. We spend all our life trying to be less lonesome. One of our ancient methods is to tell a story begging the listener to say — and to feel — "Yes, that’s the way it is, or at least that’s the way I feel it. You’re not as alone as you thought."

It is the nature of a man as he grows older, a small bridge intime, toprotest againstchange, particularlychangefor the better.

I've done my damndest to rip a reader's nerves to rags, I don't want him satisfied.