The Democratic Party is now a political mechanism having a genuine political principle: national socialism.

Life is a thin narrowness of taken-for-granted, a plank over a canyon in a fog. There is something under our feet, the taken-for-granted. A table is a table, food is food, we are we - because we don't question these things. And science is the enemy because it is the questioner. Faith saves our souls alive by giving us a universe of the taken-for-granted.

I ask myself, 'why am I so lazy?' and am too lazy to reply.

Curiosity is the hunger of the human mind.

What I can't understand is, how can anybody figure now that the government can support us, when we support the government.

no one in a group of three is the same person he (she, it) is in a group of two. No more than he is the same in a group of two as he is alone.

Our quilts were more than useful, they had the faint sentimentality of a pressed flower. And no more beauty. We did not value them for their appearance, but for the memories in them, for their good wearing qualities and the thrift they represented.