The world, as a rule, does not live on beaches and in country clubs.

All she wanted was to be a little girl, to be efficiently taken care of by some yielding yet superior power, stupider and steadier than herself. It seemed that the only lover she had ever wanted was a lover in a dream

Life is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel. Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy.

sometimes i wish i'd been an englishman; american life is so damned dumb and stupid and healthy

Take off that darn fur coat!...Or maybe you'd like to have us open all the windows.

Of all natural forces, vitality is the incommunicable one. . . . Vitality never "takes." You have it or you haven't it, like health or brown eyes or a baritone voice.

They're a rotten crowd', I shouted across the lawn. 'You're worth the whole damn bunch put together.