All that kept her from breaking was that it was not an image of strength that was leaving her; she would be just as strong without him.

My God,' he gasped, 'you're fun to kiss.

Marriage was created not to be a background but to need one. Mine is going to be outstanding. It can't, shan't be the setting - it's going to be the performance, the lively, lovely, glamorous performance, and the world shall be the scenery.

I want to do everything in the world with you.

Sometimes it is harder to deprive oneself of a pain than of a pleasure.

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

He had waited five years and bought a mansion where he dispensed starlight to casual moths - so that he could 'come over' some afternoon to a stranger's garden.