By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day.

At bottom the world isn't a joke. We only joke about it to avoid an issue with someone, to let someone know that we know he's there with his questions; to disarm him by seeming to have heard and done justice to his side of the standing argument.

I only hope that when I am free, as they are free to go in quest, of the knowledge beyond the bounds of life, it may not seem better to me to rest.

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.

Yes, and even for the past...that it will turn out to have been all right for what it was. Something I can accept. Mistakes made by the self I had to be or was not able to be.

I hope to leave behind a few poems it will be hard to get rid of.

Oh, come forth into the storm and rout And be my love in the rain.