The cleverly expressed opposite of any generally accepted idea is worth a fortune to somebody.

I'm inclined to reserve all judgement, a habit that has opened up many curious natures to me and made me the victim of not a few veteran bores. The abnormal mind is quick to detect and attach itself to this quality when it appears in a normal person, and so it came about that in college I was unjustly accused of being a politician, because I was privy to the secret griefs of wild, unknown men.

Poetry is either something that lives like fire inside you

Trouble has no necessary connection with discouragement. Discouragement has a germ of its own, as different from trouble as arthritis is different from a stiff joint.

Though the Jazz Age continued it became less and less an affair of youth. The sequel was like a children's party taken over by the elders.

But I suppose you must touch life in order to spring from it.

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.