I Don't Want Them To Be Told

Lake Wobegon, The Little Town That Time Forgot And The Decades Cannot Improve.

... Life Itself Is Brief, And That Is What Charges The Day With Such Ridiculous Beauty.

Cleverness Is A Burden After That. You Are Supposed To Settle Down And Be A Good Person, Raise Your Children, And Be Good To Your Friends, Which You May Not Have Been Back When You Were Clever.

Vacation Cruises Are Advertised As Luxurious Journeys To Exotic Places, But A Chief Pleasure Is The Reading Of Books ... . On Steamer Chairs Topside Or Poolside, In The Lounges, Everywhere You See Men And Women With Their Noses In Books, Devouring Them For Hours.

In Romance, As In Life, You Only Learn When You're Losing.