I began to feel that if religion was either an illusion or a revelation, it was simpler to accept it as an illusion.

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

Used to move so much, every time the chickens saw the team put in the wagon, they'd lie down on their backs and hold their legs up to be tied!

Every writer knows the terror of an unexpected success. How to carry on? How to repeat it?

Enemies are an indication of character.

pretense is the oil that lubricates society.

The only way to make a husband over according to one's ideas ... would be to adopt him at an early age, say four.