Baseball is a game played by idiots for morons.

but there was an immediately perceptible vitality about her as if the nerves of her body were continually smouldering.

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

I like France, where everybody thinks he's Napoleon--down here everybody thinks he's Christ.

In short, you have only your emotions to sell. This is the experience of all writers.

Well, let it pass, he thought; April is over, April is over. There are all kinds of love in the world, but never the same love twice. --The Sensible Thing

I don't like girls in the daytime,' he said shortly, and then thinking this a bit abrupt, he added: 'But I like you.' He cleared his throat. 'I like you first and second and third.