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Everything in life is somewhere else, and you get there in a car.

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I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.

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This is what youth must figure out:Girls, love, and living.The having, the not having,The spending and giving,And the meloncholy time of not knowing.T...more

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To confront death, in any guise, is to identify with the victim and face what is unsettling and sobering

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If the world were merely seductive, that would be easy. If it were merely challenging, that would be no problem. But I arise in the morning torn betwe...more

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Wilbur never forgot Charlotte. Although he loved her children and grandchildren dearly, none of the new spiders ever quite took her place in his heart...more

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They just keep trotting back and forth across the bridge thinking there is something better on the other side. If they'd hang head-down at the top of ...more

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There is nothing so expensive, really, as a big, well-developed, full-bodied preconception.

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Besides, my life is a catastrophe. It's a catastrophe to be without a voice.