The Plant Is Blind But It Knows

Sooner Or Later A False Belief Bumps Up Against Solid Reality, Usually On A Battlefield.

Never Use A Long Word Where A Short One Will Do.

Fate Seemed To Be Playing A Series Of Extraordinarily Unamusing Jokes.

The Secret Of A Successful Restaurant Is Sharp Knives.

She Had Had Her Momentary Flowering, A Year, Perhaps, Of Wildrose Beauty, And Then She Had Suddenly Swollen Like A Fertilized Fruit And Grown Hard And Red And Coarse, And Then Her Life Had Been Laundering, Scrubbing, Laundering, First For Children, Then For Grandchildren, Over Thirty Years. At The End Of It She Was Still Singing.