I guess this is why I hate governments. It is always the rule, the fine print, carried out by the fine print men. There's nothing to fight, no wall t… - John Steinbeck

In early June the world of leaf and blade and flowers explodes, and every sunset is different.

She planted that terror of debt so deeply in her children that even now, in a changed economic pattern where indebtedness is a part of living, I become restless when a bill is two days overdue. Olive never accepted the time-payment plan when it became popular. A thing bought on time was a thing you did not own and for which you were in debt. She saved for things she wanted, and this meant that the neighbours had new gadgets as much as two years before we did.

In business and in politics a man must carve and maul his way through men to get to be King of the Mountain. Once there, he can be great and kind — but he must get there first.