Don't be married to a line or verse if it can't rhyme, fit the meter, or doesn't fit the outline.

Tell what is yours to tell. Let others tell what is theirs.

Reading and writing, like everything else, improve with practice. And, of course, if there are no young readers and writers, there will shortly be no older ones. Literacy will be dead, and democracy - which many believe goes hand in hand with it - will be dead as well.

I am certain that a Sewing Machine would relieve as much human suffering as a hundred Lunatic Asylums, and possibly a good deal more.

The heart of Jesus glowed, because it was holy. Holy things glowed in general.

Love was like a steamroller. There was no avoiding it; it went over you and you came out flat.

We slept in what had once been the gymnasium.