Love Is The One Thing

Writing Is Just Work-there's No Secret. If You Dictate Or Use A Pen Or Type Or Write With Your Toes-it's Still Just Work.

Fortune Has Dealt With Me Rather Too Well. I Have Known Little Struggle, Not Much Poverty, Many Generosities. Now And Then I Have, For My Books Or Myself, Been Somewhat Warmly Denounced -- There Was One Good Pastor In California Who Upon Reading My Elmer Gantry Desired To Lead A Mob And Lynch Me, While Another Holy Man In The State Of Maine Wondered If There Was No Respectable And Righteous Way Of Putting Me In Jail.

Except For Half A Dozen In Each Town The Citizens Are Proud Of That Achievement Of Ignorance Which Is So Easy To Come By. To Be 'intellectual' Or 'artistic' Or, In Their Own Word, To Be 'highbrow,' Is To Be Priggish And Of Dubious Virtue.

She Was Snatched Back From A Dream Of Far Countries, And Found Herself On Main Street.

What Are These Unheard Of Sins You Condemn So Much - And Like So Well?