Shakespeare--whetting, frustrating, surprising and gratifying.

The two basic stories of all times are Cinderella and Jack the Giant Killer-the charm of women and the courage of men.

If I knew words enough, I could write the longest love letter in the world and never get tired

He had been full of the idea so long, dreamed it right through to the end, waited with his teeth set, so to speak, at an inconceivable pitch of intensity. Now, in the reaction, he was running down like an overwound clock.

Beauty is only to be admired, only to be loved - to be harvested carefully and then flung at a chosen lover like a gift of roses. It seems to me, so far as I can judge clearly at all, that my beauty would be used like that.

Optimism is the content of small men in high places.

He had no plans, no definite intentions, except to kiss her lips again, to hold her in his arms.