Almost everybody in the neighborhood had troubles, frankly localized and specified; but only the chosen had complications. To have them was in itself a distinction, though it was also, in most cases, a death warrant. People struggled on for years wit

The real marriage of true minds is for any two people to possess a sense of humor or irony pitched in exactly the same key, so that their joint glances on any subject cross like interarching searchlights.

Every house is a mad-house at some time or another.

A New York divorce is in itself a diploma of virtue.

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

What Lily craved was the darkness made by enfolding arms, the silence which is not solitude, but compassion holding its breath.

I had the story, bit by bit, from various people, and, as generally happens in such cases, each time it was a different story.