I found that my name signed to a check was even more welcome than when signed to a letter.

McKnight is gradually taking over the criminal end of the business.

because we are always staring at the stars, we learn the shortness of our arms.

I have never learned to say 'gas' for gasoline. It seems to me as absurd as if I were to say 'but' for butter.

Girls inevitably grew into women, but something of the boy persisted in every man.

I hate those men who would send into war youth to fight and die for them; the pride and cowardice of those old men, making their wars that boys must die.

Death was a beginning and not an end; it was the morning of the spirit. Tired bodies lay down to sleep and their souls wakened to the morning, rested; the first fruits of them that slept.