Socially inferior animals are the ones that make the most strenuous, resourceful efforts to get to know their keepers. They prove to be the ones most faithful to them…it is a fact commonly known in the trade.

My suffering left me sad and gloomy.

Stories--individual stories, family stories, national stories--are what stitch together the disparate elements of human existence into a coherent whole. We are story animals.

War subjects itself to transportation in a way that we find acceptable.

How true is that necessity is the mother of invention, how very true.

A work of art works because it is true, not because it is real.

The presence of God is the finest of rewards.