Beware the artist who's an intellectual also. The artist who doesn't fit.

Angry, and half in love with her, and tremendously sorry, I turned away.

Never walk near the bed; to a ghost your ankle is your most vulnerable part-once in bed, you're safe; he may lie around under the bed all night, but you're safe as daylight. If you still have doubts pull the blanket over your head.

sometimes i wish i'd been an englishman; american life is so damned dumb and stupid and healthy

At eighteen our convictions are hills from which we look; at forty-five they are caves in which we hide.

Well, let it pass, he thought; April is over, April is over. There are all kinds of love in the world, but never the same love twice. --The Sensible Thing

His hand took hold of hers, and as she said something low in his ear he turned toward her with a rush of emotion. I think that voice held him most, with its fluctuating, feverish warmth, because it couldn’t be over-dreamed —that voice was a deathless song.