Ah, summer, what power you have to make us suffer and like it.
People who say you're just as old as you feel are all wrong, fortunately.
Americans like fat books and thin women.
Skins tanned to the consistency of well-traveled alligator suitcases.
A skillful playwright might have a good time with the story of the assassination of President William McKinley, and especially with the three most flamboyant political figures involved: Mark Hanna, Theodore Roosevelt, and Emma Goldman.
Life seemed to be an educator's practical joke in which you spent the first half learning and the second half learning that everything you learned in the first half was wrong.