He had loved too much, demanded too much, and he wore it all out.

All my life I've looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time.

America is the land of wide lawns and narrow minds.

I might say that what amateurs call a style is usually only the unavoidable awkwardnesses in first trying to make something that has not heretofore been made.

You ought to be ironical the minute you get out of bed. You ought to wake up with your mouth full of pity.

There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and because it takes a man's life to know them the little that each man gets from life is very costly and the only heritage he has to leave.

I don’t. I don’t want anybody else to touch you. I’m silly. I get furious if they touch you.