Better let it all alone in the depths of her heart and the depths of the sea.

Her body calculated to a millimeter to suggest a bud yet guarantee a flower.

Talk English to me, Tommy. Parlez francais avec moi, Nicole. But the meanings are different-- in French you can be heroic and gallant with dignity, and you know it. But in English you can't be heroic and gallant without being a little absurd, and you know that too. That gives me an advantage.

One writes of scars healed, a loose parallel to the pathology of the skin, but there is no such thing in the life of an individual.

So when the blue smoke of brittle leaves was in the air and the wind blew the wet laundry stiff on the line I decided to come back home.

What'll we do with ourselves this afternoon? And the day after that, and the next thirty years?

His dream must have seemed so close that he could hardly fail to grasp it. He did not know that it was already behind him.