She laughed with thrilling scorn. "Sophisticated-God, I'm sophisticated!

You have a place in my heart no one else ever could have.

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

The compensation of a very early success is a conviction that life is a romantic matter. In the best sense one stays young.

It was strange to have no self-to be like a little boy left alone in a big house, who knew that now he could do anything he wanted to do, but found that there was nothing that he wanted to do.

Something was making him nibble at the edge of stale ideas as if his sturdy physical egotism no longer nourished his peremptory heart.

Actually that’s my secret — I can’t even talk about you to anybody because I don’t want any more people to know how wonderful you are.