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

True originality consists not in a new manner but in a new vision.

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

...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.

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

And he felt himself oppressed by this creation of factitious purity, so cunningly manufactured by a conspiracy of mothers and aunts and grandmothers and long-dead ancestresses, because it was supposed to be what he wanted, what he had a right to, in order that he might exercise his lordly pleasure in smashing it like an image made of snow.

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