I had come out of a messy workplace along a messy street to a messy room and did not like it and within me was the beer that made me bold. - Sherwood Anderson

Most boys have seasons of wishing they could die gloriously instead of just being grocery clerks and going on with their humdrum lives.

Most philosophers must have been raised on chicken farms. One hopes for so much from a chicken and is so dreadfully disillusioned. Small chickens, just setting out on the journey of life, look so bright and alert and they are in fact so dreadfully stupid. They are so much like people they mix one up in one's judgments of life.

People keep on getting married. Evidently hope is eternal in the human breast.