For what human ill does dawn not seem to be alternative?

Ninety-nine percent of the people in the world are fools and the rest of us are in great danger of contagion.

Winning children (who appear so guileless) are children who have discovered how effective charm and modesty and a delicately calculated spontaneity are in winning what they want.

Those who are silent, self-effacing and attentive become the recipients of confidences.

Look at that moon. Potato weather for sure.

Good-by, Good-by, world. Good-by, Grover's Corners... Mama and Papa. Good-by to clocks ticking... and Mama's sunflowers. And food and coffee. And new-ironed dresses and hot baths...and sleeping and waking up. Oh, earth, you're too wonderful for anybody to realize you.

I think I write in order to discover on my shelf a new book that I would enjoy reading, or to see a new play that would engross me.