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.

traditions that have lost their meaning are the hardest of all to destroy.

The only way not to think about money is to have a great deal of it.

The effect produced by a short story depends almost entirely on its form.

The American landscape has no foreground and the American mind no background.

In our hurried world too little value is attached to the part of the connoisseur and dilettante.

Everything about her was warm and soft and scented; even the stains of her grief became her as raindrops do the beaten rose.