Katherine Anne Porter (May 15, 1890 – September 18, 1980) was an American journalist, essayist, short story writer, novelist, poet and political activist. Her 1962 novel Ship of Fools was the best-selling novel in America that year, but her short stories received much more critical acclaim. In 1966, she was...
—Samuel Johnson in The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia
—L.H. Cosway in The Nature of Cruelty
It was no wonder that people were so horrible when they started life as children.