I am a woman and my business is to hold things together. My business is to tear them apart.

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.

The cleverly expressed opposite of any generally accepted idea is worth a fortune to somebody.

I like people and I like them to like me, but I wear my heart where God put it, on the inside.

Possibly it had occurred to him the colossal significance of that light had now vanished forever. [...] It had seemed as close as a star to the moon. Now it was a green light on a dock. His count of enchanted objects had diminished by one.

I know myself," he cried, "but that is all-

The bottle of whiskey - the second one - was now in constant demand by all present, excepting Catherine, who 'felt just as good on nothing at all.