I do understand. I understand that you are offered a loveliness and you vomit on it, that you have the gift of love given you such as few men have ev… - John Steinbeck

My dreams are the problems of the day stepped up to absurdity, a little like men dancing, wearing the horns and masks of animals.

"...to the race in general, alcohol as been an anodyne, a warmer of the soul, a strengthener of muscle and spirit. It has given courage to cowards and has made very ugly people attractive. There is a story told of a Swedish tramp, sitting in a ditch on Midsummer Night. He was ragged and dirty and drunk, and he said to himself softly and in wonder, "I am rich and happy and perhaps a little beautiful.

My father said she was a strong woman, and I believe a strong woman may be stronger than a man, particularly if she happens to have love in her heart. I guess a loving woman is almost indestructible.