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.

I hope I haven't given you the impression that I consider kissing intrinsically irrational.

Though the Jazz Age continued it became less and less an affair of youth. The sequel was like a children's party taken over by the elders.

There's so much spring in the air- there's so much lazy sweetness in your heart.

If he had to bring all the bitterness and hatred of the world into his heart, he was not going to be in love with her again.

he found what a grotesque thing a rose is and how raw the sunlight was upon the scarcely created grass.

Aristocracy's only an admission that certain traits which we call fine - courage and honor and beauty and all that sort of thing - can best be developed in a favorable environment, where you don't have the warpings of ignorance and necessity.