When the first-rate author wants an exquisite heroine or a lovely morning, he finds that all the superlatives have been worn shoddy by his inferiors. It should be a rule that bad writers must start with plain heroines and ordinary mornings, and, if they are able, work up to something better.

Shakespeare--whetting, frustrating, surprising and gratifying.

Art isn't meaningless... It is in itself. It isn't in that it tries to make life less so.

Can’t repeat the past?…Why of course you can!

I was thirty. Before me stretched the portentous, menacing road of a new decade.

It’s a great advantage not to drink among hard drinking people.

Well, I can't describe her exactly-except to say that she was beautiful. She was-tremendously alive.