We all like people who do things, even if we only see their faces on cigar-box lids.

Many people seem to think that art is a luxury to be imported and tacked on to life. Art springs out of the very stuff that life is made of. Most of our young authors start to write a story and make a few observations from nature to add local color. The results are invariably false and hollow. Art must spring out of the fullness and richness of life.

Dr. Howard Archie had just come up from a game of pool with the Jewish clothier and two traveling men who happened to be staying overnight in Moonstone.

It is easy to pity when once one's vanity has been tickled.

The only thing very noticeable about Nebraska was that it was still, all day long, Nebraska.

Our tree became the talking tree of the fairy tale; legends and stories nestled like birds in its branches.

Old men are like that, you know. It makes them feel important to think they are in love with somebody.