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.

Americans, while occasionally willing to be serfs, have always been obstinate about being peasantry.

There's no beauty without poignancy and there's no poignancy without the feeling that it's going, men, names, books, houses--bound for dust--mortal--

I want to be a society vampire, you see.

They had never been closer in their month of love, nor communicated more profoundly one with another, than when she brushed silent lips against his coat's shoulder or when he touched the end of her fingers, gently, as though she were asleep.

Her body calculated to a millimeter to suggest a bud yet guarantee a flower.

One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise.