When a man is really in love he can't help looking like a sheep.

... there are many to whom money has no personal appeal, but who can be tempted by the power it confers.

Fey...a Scotch word...It means the kind of exalted happiness that comes before disaster. You know--it's too good to be true.

But no artist, I now realize, can be satisfied with art alone. There is a natural craving for recognition which cannot be gain-said.

It's a mystery to me how anyone ever gets any nourishment in this place. They must eat their meals standing up by the window so as to be sure of not missing anything.

It had come about ex­act­ly in the way things hap­pened in books.

There hung about her the restrained energy of a whiplash.