having considerable mind, changing it became almost as ponderous an operation as moving a barn, although not nearly so stable.

having considerable mind, changing it became almost as ponderous an operation as moving a barn, although not nearly so stable.

... Washington was not only an important capital. It was a city of fear. Below that glittering and delightful surface there is another story, that of underpaid Government clerks, men and women holding desperately to work that some political pull may at any moment take from them. A city of men in office and clutching that office, and a city of struggle which the country never suspects.

We are often miserable at our desk or typewriters, but not happy away from them.

the calm of a place like Bellwood is the peace of death without the hope of resurrection.

The greatest weapon in the world ... is ridicule.

There is a point at which curiosity becomes unbearable, when it becomes an obsession, like hunger.