A frivolous society can acquire dramatic significance only through what its frivolity destroys.

...It was one of the great livery-stableman's most masterly intuitions to have discovered that Americans want to get away from amusement even more quickly than they want to get to it.

Archer had always been inclined to think that chance and circumstance played a small part in shaping people's lots compared with their innate tendency to have things happen to them.

After all, one knows one's weak points so well, that it's rather bewildering to have the critics overlook them and invent others.

Overhead hung a summer sky furrowed with the rush of rockets; and from the east a late moon, pushing up beyond the lofty bend of the coast, sent across the bay a shaft of brightness which paled to ashes in the red glitter of the illuminated boats.

Nothing is more perplexing to a man than the mental process of a woman who reasons her emotions.

We ought to be opening a bottle of wine!