My knees could have been stirred with a spoon.

In some circumstances, the refusal to be defeated is a refusal to be educated.

Infants, I note with envy, are receptive to enjoyment in a degree not attained by adults this side of the new Jerusalem.

In practice, there is nothing especially dramatic in people getting along well together.

you have to realize the white-supremacy boys are spoiled children. 'I want my way,' they scream, and like all spoiled children, they advance no justification for it except that it is their way.

Father's snoring grows to sound increasingly like a vacuum cleaner in heat.

What I know about money, I learned the hard way – by having had it.