...ignorant as the unborne babe! ignorant as unborn twins!

When you catch an adjective, kill it - perhaps the best possible advice for budding writers.

Man never creates, he only recombines the lines and colors of his own existance.

But I reckon I got to light out for the Territory ahead of therest, because Aunt Sally she's going to adopt me and sivilize me, and I can't stand it. I been there before.

We had an abundance of mangoes, papaias and bananas here, but the pride of the islands, the most delicious fruit known to men, cherimoya, was not in season. It has a soft pulp, like a pawpaw, and is eaten with a spoon.

It's easy to endure adversity -- if it happens to someone else.

It is the will of God that we must have critics and missionaries and congressmen and humorists, and we must bear the burden