We all live in suspense from day to day; in other words, you are the hero of your own story.
Liberty, as it is conceived by current opinion, has nothing inherent about it; it is a sort of gift or trust bestowed on the individual by the state pending good behavior.
The suspense of a novel is not only in the reader, but in the novelist, who is intensely curious about what will happen to the hero.
We are the hero of our own story.
When an American heiress wants to buy a man, she at once crosses the Atlantic. The only really materialistic people I have ever met have been Europeans.
