His was a great sin who first invented consciousness. Let us lose it for a few hours.

Absolutely. No more pretending!

If we could only learn to look on evil as evil, whether it's clothed in filth or monotony or magnificence.

These three children own the summer. They know the wood as surely as they know the micro landscapes of their own grazed knees; put them down blindfolded in any dell or clearing and they could find their way out without putting a foot wrong. This is their territory, and they rule it wild and lordly as young animals; they scramble through its trees and hide-and-seek in its hollows all the endless day long, and all night in their dreams.

I avoided writers very carefully because they can perpetuate trouble as no one else can.

Understand now, I'm purely a fiction writer and do not profess to be an earnest student of political science, but I believe strongly that such a law as one prohibiting liquor is foolish, and all the writers, keenly interested in human welfare whom I know, laugh at the prohibition law.