First, he realized that the sea was blue and that there was an enormous quantity of it, and that it roared and roared-really all the banalities about the ocean that one could realize, but if any one had told him then that these things were banalities, he would have gaped in wonder.

There has never been an American tragedy. There have only been great failures.

You are the loveliest thing that I have ever known.

One girl can be pretty - but a dozen are only a chorus.

As soon as I arrived I made an attempt to find my host but the two or three people of whom I asked his whereabouts stared at me in such an amazed way and denied so vehemently an knowledge of his movements that I slunk off in the direction of the cocktail table--the only place in the garden where a single man could linger without looking purposeless and alone.

Nothing is as obnoxious as other people's luck.

The Montana sunset lay between the mountains like a giant bruise from which darkened arteries spread across a poisoned sky.