One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise.

Your life on earth will be, as always, the interval between two significant glances in a mundane mirror.

Then came the war, old sport. It was a great relief, and I tried very hard to die, but I seemed to bear an enchanted life.

All I kept thinking about, over and over, was 'You can't live forever; you can't live forever.

It was testimony to the romantic speculation he inspired that there were whispers about him from those who had found little that it was necessary to whisper about in this world.

The invitation to Miss Myra St. Claire's bobbing party spent the morning in his coat pocket, where it had an intense physical affair with a dusty piece of peanut brittle.

Never miss a party...good for the nerves--like celery.