Somewhere inside me there’ll always be the person I am to-night

The ability to hold two competing thoughts in one's mind and still be able to function is the mark of a superior mind

She felt a little betrayed and sad, but presently a moving object came into sight. It was a huge horse-chestnut tree in full bloom bound for the Champs Elysees, strapped now into a long truck and simply shaking with laughter - like a lovely person in an undignified position yet confident none the less of being lovely. Looking at it with fascination, Rosemary identified herself with it, and laughed cheerfully with it, and everything all at once seemed gorgeous.

Here's to alcohol, the rose colored glasses of life.

I love New York on summer afternoons when everyone's away. There's something very sensuous about it - overripe, as if all sorts of funny fruits were going to fall into your hands.

You see I usually find myself among strangers because I drift here and there trying to forget the sad things that happened to me.

I am slow-thinking and full of interior rules that act as brakes on my desires.