Shakespeare--whetting, frustrating, surprising and gratifying.

Every one suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues, and this is mine: I am one of the few honest people that I have ever known.

I've got an adjective that just fits you.

Baltimore is warm but pleasant... I belong here, where everything is civilized and gay and rotted and polite.

Optimism is the content of small men in high places.

At any rate, let us love for a while, for a year or so, you and me. That's a form of divine drunkenness that we can all try. There are only diamonds in the whole world, diamonds and perhaps the shabby gift of disillusion.

he could transform the barest incident into a thing of curve and contour.