“Is Bliss then, such Abyss,I must not put my foot amissFor fear I spoil my shoe? I'd rather suit my footThan save my Boot --For yet to buy another Pairis possible,At any store -- But Bliss, is sold just once.The Patent lostNone buy it any more --”
“I too had woven a kind of basket of a delicate texture, but I had not made it worth any one's while to buy them. Yet not the less, in my case, did I think it worth my while to weave them, and instead of studying how to make it worth men's while to buy my baskets, I studied rather how to avoid the necessity of selling them.”
“I buy my shoes a size too small. I like the way it feels.”
“My son,' he wrote to me, 'fear the love of woman; fear that bliss, that poison....”
“I'd rather invest my time collecting memories and friends and love and all the things money can't buy.”
“Yup I put it on him, it ain't nothing I can't do, yup i buy my own, if he deserve it buy his shit too”