Personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures.

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

Look at that,' she whispered, and then after a moment: 'I'd like to just get one of those pink clouds and put you in it and push you around.

I have lived hard and ruined the essential innocence [sic] in myself that could make it that possible [sic], and the fact that I have abused liquor is something to be paid for with suffering and death perhaps but not renunciation.

And Yale is November, crisp and energetic.

It occurred to me that there was no difference between men, in intelligence or race, so profound as the difference between the sick and the well.

Life is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel. Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy.