Many nights he lay there dreaming awake of secret cafés in Mont Marte, where ivory women delved in romantic mysteries with diplomats and soldiers of fortune, while orchestras played Hungarian waltzes and the air was thick and exotic with intrigue and moonlight and adventure.

Celibacy goes deeper than the flesh.

Her philosophy is carpe diem for herself and laissez faire for others.

That familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer.

Life is much more successfully looked at from a single window.

Speech is an arrangement of notes that will never be played again.

I was too absorbed to be responsive