History must always be taken with a grain of salt. It is, after all, not a science but an art.

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

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.

The knowingness of little girls, is hidden underneath their curls.

Behind every myth lies a truth; beyond every legend is reality, as radiant (sometimes as chilling) as the story itself.

Let others, worn with living / And living's aftermath, / Take Sleep to heal the heart's distress, / Take Love to be their comfortress, / Take Song or Food or Fancy Dress, / But I shall take a Bath.

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