If we'd stop trying to be happy we could have a pretty good time.

To [Henry] James's intimates, however, these elaborate hesitancies, far from being an obstacle, were like a cobweb bridge flung from his mind to theirs, an inv…

Life is always a tightrope or a feather bed. Give me the tightrope.

I was never allowed to read the popular American children's books of my day because, as my mother said, the children spoke bad English without the author's kno…