[On James Gould Cozzens' By Love Possessed:] It is a vast enterprise encompassing all sorts of love, except, naturally, those branches which extend to Jews, Negroes, and people who have lost track of their great-grandparents.

Most good women are hidden treasures who are only safe because nobody looks for them.

His books are exciting and powerful and — if I may filch the word from the booksy ones — pulsing.

This must be a gift book. That is to say a book, which you wouldn't take on any other terms.

Now to me, Edith looks like something that would eat her young.

I wanted to be cute. That's the terrible thing. I should have had more sense.

She was pleased to have him come and never sorry to see him go.