The fields were fruitful and starving men moved on the roads. The granaries were full and the children of the poor grew up rachitic.
I am suddenly comsumed by nostalgia for the little girl who was me, who loved the fields and believed in God, who spent winter days home sick from school reading Nancy Drew and sucking menthol cough drops, who could keep a secret.
Few things in life are more embarrassing than the necessity of having to inform an old friend that you have just got engaged to his fiancee.
'Twas a woman who drove me to drink, and I never had the courtesy to thank her for it.
I like to keep a bottle of stimulant handy in case I see a snake, which I also keep handy.
My illness is dut to my doctor's insistence that I drink milk, a whitish fluid they force down helpless babies.
Horse sense is the thing a horse has which keeps it from betting on people.
A thing worth having is a thing worth cheating for.
I'm free of all prejudices. I hate everyone equally.
I never vote for anyone; I always vote against.