It's all right to tell a wife the brutal truth, but you've got to go sort of easy with your lady-love. - Zoë Akins

Indifferent to all the fun of chance </br> I watched black spiders of inertia spin </br> The far-flung web which I was strangling in.

Forgetting is the cost </br> Of living cheerfully.

My cousin Cleofante does not believe in inspiration. She shuns the false energy of all stimulants, even those of criticism and sympathy, when she sets herself to a task. What she does, she does alone—unencouraged, unadvised, unmoved. She has a man’s broad and vital technique, and a man’s ability for thinking straight and far. For years I have watched her work,—coldly, intelligently, solely with the power of her brain,—achieving effects that are in no way miracles, but are matters of technique and deliberation.