It’s a great advantage not to drink among hard drinking people.

Boredom is not an end-product, is comparatively rather an early stage in life and art. You've got to go by or past or through boredom, as through a filter, before the clear product emerges.

You're not sorry to go, of course. With people like us our home is where we are not... No one person in the world is necessary to you or to me.

The first lights of the evening were springing into pale existence. The Ferris wheel, pricked out now in lights, revolved leisurely through the dusk; a few empty cars of the roller coaster rattled overhead.

I hope something happens. I'm restless as the devil and have a horror of getting fat or falling in love and growing domestic.

You are mysterious, I love you. You’re beautiful, intelligent, and virtuous, and that’s the rarest known combination.

...I think he revalued everything in his house according to the measure of response it drew from her well-loved eyes.