Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of simple races for the insane... There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions.

They were stars on this stage, each playing to an audience of two.

What'll we do with ourselves this afternoon? And the day after that, and the next thirty years?

People talk of the courage of convictions, but in actual life a man's duty to his family may make a rigid course seem a selfish indulgence of his own righteousness.

Their lips brushed like young wild flowers in the wind.

It is invariably saddening to look through new eyes at things upon which you have expended your own powers of adjustment.

One girl can be pretty - but a dozen are only a chorus.