"We waste little time in indirections, so I hope it's not out of the way for me to ask straightforwardly if you are truly in earnest, about wanting a home in Lilac Valley ?" "Then I'll have to answer you," said Peter, "that I have an attractive part of the 'makin's' and I am in deadly earnest about wanting a home somewhere.

I am sick in my soul of narrow apartments and wheels and the rush and roar of the city.

There was a time when I ate and drank it.
It was the very breath of life to me.

I charged on Broadway like a caterpillar tank charging in battle; but it is very remarkable how quickly one changes in this world.

I have had some success in my work, and the higher I go, the better work I feel I can do in a quiet place and among less enervating surroundings.