At fifteen one is first beginning to realize that everything isn't money and power in this world, and is casting about for joys that do not turn to dross in one's hands.

Traveling with children corresponds roughly to traveling third class in Bulgaria.

The free-lance writer is a man who is paid per piece or per word or perhaps.

There is no doubt that every healthy, normal boy...should own a dog at some time in his life, preferably between the ages of forty-five and fifty.

I have been told by hospital authorities that more copies of my works are left behind by departing patients than those of any other author.

It must be a source of great chagrin to those in charge to think of so many people being able to stick a stamp on a letter and drop it in a mail box without any trouble or suffering at all. They are probably working on a system this very minute, trying to devise some way in which the public can be made to fill out a blank, stand in line, consult some underling who will refer him to a superior, and then be made to black up with burned cork before they can mail a letter.

The ideal age for a boy to own a dog is between forty-five and fifty.