Riches have never fascinated me, unless combined with the greatest charm or distinction.

Life is progressive, no matter what our intentions.

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.

Sometimes I don't know whether I'm real or whether I'm a character in one of my novels.

Great books write themselves, only bad books have to be written.

The Montana sunset lay between the mountains like a giant bruise from which darkened arteries spread across a poisoned sky.

I'm one of those people who go through the world giving other people thrills, but getting few myself except those I read into men on such nights as these. I have the social courage to go on the stage, but not the energy; I haven't the patience to write books; and I never met a man I'd marry. However, I'm only eighteen.