There's one thing I've always known: You can let people suspect anything else about you, but you must never let them suspect you of knowing what you're doing.

There's one thing I've always known: You can let people suspect anything else about you, but you must never let them suspect you of knowing what you're doing.

Most people are so busy knocking themselves out trying to do everything they think they should, they never get around to do what they want to do.

If you had better sense you’d have learned by now that nothing thrives so well as wickedness

... maybe that's all anyone who writes or paints or sculpts is doing anyway -- excusing themselves for refusing to live like other people or be like them.

War makes strangers bedfellows.

Marygreen did not change in sixteen years. It had changed little enough in the past two years.