It makes me sad because I've never seen such--such beautiful shirts before.

Prose talent depends on having something to say and an interesting, highly developed way of saying it.

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.

A writer wastes nothing.

The mind of a little child is fascinating, for it looks on old things with new eyes-but at about twelve this changes. The adolescent offers nothing, can do nothing, say nothing that the adult cannot do better.

They seemed nearer, not only mentally, but physically when they read ... Their chance was to make everything fine and finished and rich and imaginative; they must bend tiny golden tentacles from his imagination to hers, that would take the place of the great, deep love that was never so near, yet never so much of a dream.

To a profound pessimist about life, being in danger is not depressing.