Oh, give us pleasure in the orch-ard white, Like nothing else by day, like ghosts by night.

Loyalty is that for the lack of which your gang will shoot you without benefit of trial by jury.

The first thing I do in any town I come to is ask if it has a bookstore.

Sentences are not different enough to hold the attention unless they are dramatic. No ingenuity of varying structure will do. All that can save them is the speaking tone of voice somehow entangled in the words and fastened to the page for the ear of the imagination. That is all that can save poetry from sing-song, all that can save prose from itself.

There is one thing more exasperating than a wife who can cook and won't, and that's a wife who can't cook and will.

Space ails us moderns: we are sick with space.

He is all pine and I am apple orchard. My apple trees will never get across And eat the cones under his pines, I tell him. He only says, "Good fences make good neighbors.