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

A lot of young girls together is a romantic secret thing like the first sight of wild ducks at dawn.

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

Can't repeat the past?" he cried incredulously. "Why of course you can!" He looked around him wildly, as if the past were lurking here in the shadow of his house, just out of reach of his hand.

"What are you going to do?" "Can't say - run for president, write -" "Greenwich Village?" "Good heavens, no - I said write - not drink."

I avoided writers very carefully because they can perpetuate trouble as no one else can.

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.