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

He had no plans, no definite intentions, except to kiss her lips again, to hold her in his arms.

The officer looked at Daisy while she was speaking, in a way that every young girl wants to be looked at sometime, and because it seemed romantic to me I have remembered the incident ever since.

New York had all the iridescence of the beginning of the world.

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 like France, where everybody thinks he's Napoleon--down here everybody thinks he's Christ.

It appears that every man's insomnia is as different from his neighbours as are their daytime hopes and aspirations.