This Medal (the National Book Award) Together

A Farm Is An Irregular Patch Of Nettles Bounded By Short-term Notes, Containing A Fool And His Wife Who Didn't Know Enough To Stay In The City.

English Life, While Very Pleasant, Is Rather Bland. I Expected Kindness And Gentility And I Found It, But There Is Such A Thing As Too Much Couth.

He Bit His Lip In A Manner Which Immediately Awakened My Maternal Sympathy, And I Helped Him Bite It.

The Worst Disgrace That Can Befall A Producer Is An Unkind Notice From A New York Reviewer. When This Happens, The Producer Becomes A Pariah In Hollywood. He Is Shunned By His Friends, Thrown Into Bankruptcy, And Like A Japanese Electing Hara-kiri, He Commits Suttee.

If Travel Has Taught Me Nothing More, And It Certainly Has, It's This: You Never Know When Some Trifling Incident, Utterly Without Significance, May Pitchfork You Into Adventure Or, By The Same Token, May Not.