The power of an attitude is amazing

There's a capacity for appetite... that a whole heaven and earth of cake can't satisfy

It was too nerve-wracking, a shocking spectacle, like seeing an old, calm friend go insane.

A funeral isn't for the dead. You'll simply be a stage set for a kind of festival maybe. And besides, you won't even be there.

I think today if we forbade our illiterate children to touch the wonderful things of our literature, perhaps they might steal them and find secret joy.

The story [Henny-Penny] has the best opening in all literature-"The sky is falling," cried Henny-Penny, "and a piece of it fell on my tail.

Texas has a tight cohesiveness perhaps stronger than any other section of America.