The love that dare not speak its name has become the love that won't shut up.

The love that dare not speak its name has become the love that won't shut up.

The Alexander Technique keeps the body alive, at ages when many people have resigned themselves to irreversible decline.

Comparatively few people know what a million dollars actually is. To the majority it is a gaseous concept, swelling or decreasing as the occasion suggests. In the minds of politicians, perhaps more than anywhere, the notion of a million dollars has this accordion-like ability to expand or contract; if they are disposing of it, the million is a pleasing sum, reflecting warmly upon themselves; if somebody else wants it, it becomes a figure of inordinate size, not to be compassed by the rational mind.

When a man is down on his luck he seems to consume all he can get of coffee and doughnuts.

The great charm of cats is their rampant egotism, their devil-may-care attitude toward responsibility, their disinclination to earn an honest dollar.

The book forces itself into my mind when I am lugging furniture, or pulling weeds.