I care not who hoes the lettuce of my country if I can eat the salad!

All good writing is swimming under water and holding your breath.

I hope I haven't given you the impression that I consider kissing intrinsically irrational.

Laughter is easier minute by minute, spilled with prodigality, tipped out at a cheerful word.

...for a moment people set down their glasses in county clubs and speak-easies and thought of their old best dreams.

Everything that begins, begins with blood.

At any rate, let us love for a while, for a year or so, you and me. That's a form of divine drunkenness that we can all try. There are only diamonds in the whole world, diamonds and perhaps the shabby gift of disillusion.