There is a moment—Oh, just before the first kiss, a whispered word—something that makes it worth while.

I hope she'll be a fool -- that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.

Even when everything seems rotten you can't trust that judgment. It's the sum of all your judgments that counts.

Youth is like having a big plate of candy. Sentimentalists think they want to be in the pure, simple state they were in before they ate the candy. They don't. They just want the fun of eating it all over again.

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 you can love more than just one person, can't you?

There was a kindliness about intoxication - there was that indescribable gloss and glamour it gave, like the memories of ephemeral and faded evenings.