I can't love you unless I give you up.

In the dissolution of sentimental partnerships it is seldom that both associates are able to withdraw their funds at the same time.

The essence of taste is suitability. Divest the word of its prim and priggish implications, and see how it expresses the mysterious demand of the eye and mind for symmetry, harmony and order.

In any really good subject, one has only to probe deep enough to come to tears.

Archer reddened to the temples but dared not move or speak: it was as if her words had been some rare butterfly that the least motion might drive off on startled wings, but that might gather a flock if it were left undisturbed.

The desire for symmetry, for balance, for rhythm in form as well as in sound, is one of the most inveterate of human instincts.

The taste of the usual was like cinders in his mouth, and there were moments when he felt as if he were being buried alive under his future.