The successful truck gardener can never go out to dinner in the summer or spend a week end away, because his conscience tells him he has to be at home eating up his corn or packaging his beans for the freezer.

Seventy is wormwood, Seventy is gall But its better to be seventy, Than not alive at all.

Meek-eyed parents hasten down the ramps To greet their offspring, terrible from camps.

Women like other women fine. The more feminine she is, the more comfortable a woman feels with her own sex. It is only the occasional and therefore noticeable adventuress who refuses to make friends with us.

The thing to remember about fathers is, they're men. A girl has to keep it in mind: They are dragon seekers, bent on improbable rescues. Scratch any father, you find someone chock - full of qualms and romantic terrors, believing change is a threat - like your first shoes with heels on, like your first bicycle I took such months to get.

People are no longer sinful, they are only immature or underprivileged or frightened or, more particularly, sick.

The mass of men live lives of quiet exasperation.