A joke is a joke or the image of a truth.

Very rare, the intelligence of the heart. The intelligence of the whimsical brain is less rare, less attaching, sometimes tedious.

Hope is a talent like any other.

A joke is a joke or the image of a truth.

The young are so much more vulnerable than the old - the stuff is still warm and malleable, it takes impressions.

I am persuaded that not a novel in ten thousand is of any use to a child to fit him for life. The most are of use only to unfit him -- to blunt his senses and infect him with the writers' poor silly sentiments. Nine out of ten novelists deserve to be prosecuted under an Adulterated Emotions Act.

each time that I have run away - and from a habit it quickly became an illness - I have betrayed someone. Myself, but not always only myself.