It is difficult to deal successfully, he decided, with a woman whose feelings cannot be hurt.

convictions ... are always getting in the way of opportunities.

There is in every human being, I think, a native country of the mind, where, protected by inaccessible barriers, the sensitive dream life may exist safely.

...I had grown up in a world that was dominated by immature age. Not by vigorous immaturity, but by immaturity that was old and tired and prudent, that loved ritual and rubric, and was utterly wanting in curiosity about the new and the strange. Its era has passed away, and the world it made has crumbled around us. Its finest creation, a code of manners, has been ridiculed and discarded.

There is only one force stronger than selfishness, and that is stupidity.

There wouldn't be half as much fun in the world if it weren't for children and men, and there ain't a mite of difference between them under the skins.

America has enjoyed the doubtful blessing of a single-track mind.