Life is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel. Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy.

Personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures.

Later she remembered all the hours of the afternoon as happy -- one of those uneventful times that seem at the moment only a link between past and future pleasure, but turn out to have been the pleasure itself.

He's sensitive and I don't want him to break his heart over somebody who doesn't care about him.

That's the whole burden of this novel - the loss of those illusions that give such color to the world that you don't care whether things are true or false as long as they partake of the magical glory.

I wanted no more riotous excursions with privileged glimpses into the human heart.

I wish I could write. I get these ideas but I never seem to be able to put them in words.