If Our American Way Of Life Fails

No Daughter Is Ever Her Mother's Darling. That Spot Is Always Reserved For The Son.

Nothing And No One Can Destroy The Chinese People. They Are Relentless Survivors. They Are The Oldest Civilized People On Earth. Their Civilization Passes Through Phases But Its Basic Characteristics Remain The Same. They Yield, They Bend To The Wind, But They Never Break.

We Must Have Hope Or Starve To Death.

Never, If You Can Possibly Help It, Write A Novel. It Is, In The First Place, A Thoroughly Unsocial Act. It Makes One Obnoxious To One's Family And To One's Friends. One Sits About For Many Weeks, Months, Even Years, In The Worst Cases, In A State Of Stupefaction.

When One Commits One's Self To An Airborne Craft And The Door Is Fastened Against Earth And Home, There Is No Escape Even By Running Away. The Result Is A Strange Sense Of Peace - Desperate, Perhaps, But Peace.