New York had all the iridescence of the beginning of the world. The returning troops marched up Fifth Avenue and girls were instinctively drawn East and North toward them - this was the greatest nation and there was gala in the air.

I love her and that's the beginning and end of everything.

You've got to sell your heart, your strongest reactions, not the little minor things that only touch you lightly, the little experiences that you might tell at dinner. This is especially true when you begin to write, when you have not yet developed the tricks of interesting people on paper, when you have none of the technique which it takes time to learn. When, in short, you have only your emotions to sell.

Intelligence is measured by a person's ability to see validity within both sides of contradicting arguments.

Every one suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues, and this is mine: I am one of the few honest people that I have ever known.

why shouldn't he? All life is just a progression toward and then a recession from one phrase-- 'I love you

If that was true he must have felt that he had lost the old warm world, paid a high price for living too long with a single dream.