Young people do not perceive at once that the giver of wounds is the enemy and the quoted tattle merely the arrow.

I began to like New York, the racy, adventurous feel of it at night, and the satisfaction that the constant flicker of men and women and machines gives to the restless eye.

Baltimore is warm but pleasant... I belong here, where everything is civilized and gay and rotted and polite.

Of the things they possessed in common, greatest of all was their almost uncanny pull at each others hearts.

The men--the undergraduates of Yale and Princeton are cleaner, healthier, better-looking, better dressed, wealthier and more attractive than any undergraduate body in the country.

Often I think writing is a sheer paring away of oneself leaving always something thinner, barer, more meagre.

Youth is like having a big plate of candy. Sentimentalists think they want to be in the pure, simple state they were in before they ate the candy. They don't. They just want the fun of eating it all over again.