She was looking into my eyes with that way she had of looking that made you wonder whether she really saw out of her own eyes. They would look on and on after every one else's eyes in the world would have stopped looking. She looked as though there were nothing on earth she would not look at like that, and really she was afraid of so many things.

You can write any time people will leave you alone and not interrupt you. Or rather you can if you will be ruthless enough about it. But the best writing is certainly when you are in love. If it is all the same to you I would rather not expound on that.

As in no other form of lute or combat, the conditions are such; the winner takes nothing, neither his ease, nor his pleasure, nor any notion of glory, nor if he wins far enough, will he find anything within himself.

Somebody just back of you while you are fishing is as bad as someone looking over your shoulder while you write a letter to your girl.

If you're looking for messages, try Western Union.

Cheer up,' I said. 'All countries look just like the moving pictures.

Why did they make birds so delicate and fine as those sea swallows when the ocean can be so cruel?