Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.

I love this simply because it's cute, and I guess it's a sign of the times in many respect. It's pretty much saying you complete me, only in the sweetest way possible.

She was a mischief, and that was a satisfaction; no longer was she a huntress of corralled game

How I feel is that if I wanted anything I'd take it. That's what I've always thought all my life. But it happens that I want you, and so I just haven't room for any other desires.

I have asked a lot of my emotions-one hundred and twenty stories. The price was high, right up with Kipling, because there was one little drop of something, not blood, not a tear, not my seed, but me more intimately than these, in every story, it was the extra I had. Now it has gone and I am just like you now.

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

A sense of the fundamental decencies is parceled out unequally at birth.