I Wonder If Anyone But Me Realizes

It Is Axiomatic Among Writers That No One Ever Sues The Writer Of An Unsuccessful Book. Just Let A Book Go Over Twenty-five Thousand Copies And It Is Surprising How Many People's Feelings Are Hurt, How Many Screwballs Think Their Brain Children Have Been Stolen, And How Many People Feel That They Have Been Portrayed In A Manner Calculated To Bring Infamy Upon Them.

Why Will People Persist In Reading Strange Meanings Into The Simplest Of Story? Is It Not Enough That A Writer Can Entertain For A Few Hours With Narrative Without Being Suspected Of 'significances' Or Symbolism Or 'social Trends'?

The Old Guard Dies But It Never Surrenders.

You Must Be More Gentle, Dear, More Sedate,' Ellen Told Her Daughter. 'you Must Not Interrupt Gentlemen When They Are Speaking, Even If You Do Think You Know More About Matters Than They Do. Gentlemen Do Not Like Forward Girls.

Land Is The Only Thing In The World That Amounts To Anything, For 'tis The Only Thing In This World That Lasts, 'tis The Only Thing Worth Working For, Worth Fighting For - Worth Dying For.