Ah, good conversation - there's nothing like it, is there? The air of ideas is the only air worth breathing.

The short story, free from the longuers of the novel is also exempt from the novel's conclusiveness--too often forced and false: it may thus more nearly than the novel approach aesthetic and moral truth.

I begin to see what marriage is for. It's to keep people away from each other. Sometimes I think that two people who love each other can be saved from madness only by the things that come between them - children, duties, visits, bores, relations - the things that protect married people from each other.

whatever the uses of a room, they are seriously interfered with if it be not preserved as a world by itself.

It was the old New York way...the way people who dreaded scandal more than disease, who placed decency above courage, and who considered that nothing was more ill-bred than "scenes", except those who gave rise to them.

My little dog - a heartbeat at my feet.

We shall hurt others less. Isn't it, after all, what you always wanted?