Even when the east excited me most, even when I was keenly aware of its superiority to the broad, sprawling, swollen towns beyond the Ohio, with their interminable inquisitions which only spared children and the very old-even then it had always for me a quality of distortion.

And Yale is November, crisp and energetic.

I want to be a society vampire, you see.

In a real dark night of the soul, it is always three o'clock in the morning, day after day.

Understand now, I'm purely a fiction writer and do not profess to be an earnest student of political science, but I believe strongly that such a law as one prohibiting liquor is foolish, and all the writers, keenly interested in human welfare whom I know, laugh at the prohibition law.

Better let it all alone in the depths of her heart and the depths of the sea.

Often a man can play the helpless child in front of a woman, but he can almost never bring it off when he feels most like a helpless child.