Laughter is easier minute by minute, spilled with prodigality, tipped out at a cheerful word.

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

For a transitory enchanted moment man must have held his breath in the presence of this continent, compelled into an aesthetic contemplation he neither understood nor desired, face to face for the last time in history with something commensurate to his capacity for wonder.

Thirty--the promise of a decade of loneliness, a thinning list of single men to know, a thinning brief-case of enthusiasm, thinning hair.

It is not necessarily poverty of spirit that makes a woman surround herself with life - it can be a superabundance of interest.

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.

Either you think, or else others have to think for you and take power from you, pervert and discipline your natural tastes, civilize and sterilize you.