...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.

Women ought to be free - as free as we are,' he declared, making a discovery of which he was too irritated to measure the terrific consequences.

To your generation, I must represent the literary equivalent of tufted furniture and gas chandeliers.

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

Until the raw ingredients of a pudding make a pudding, I shall never believe that the raw material of sensation and thought can make a work of art without the cook's intervening.

If only we'd stop trying to be happy, we could have a pretty good time.

Don't you ever mind," she asked suddenly, "not being rich enough to buy all the books you want?