An author ought to write for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmaster of ever afterwards.

It takes two to make an accident.

Then I grew up, and the beauty of succulent illusions fell away from me.

It appears that every man's insomnia is as different from his neighbours as are their daytime hopes and aspirations.

The water reached up for her, pulled her down tenderly out of the heat, seeped in her hair and ran into the corners of her body. She turned round and round in it, embracing it, wallowing in it.

unloved women have no biographies-- they have histories

Here was a new generation, shouting the old cries, learning the old creeds, through a revery of long days and nights; destined finally to go out into that dirty gray turmoil to follow love and pride; a new generation dedicated more than the last to the fear of poverty and the worship of success; grown up to find all Gods dead, all wars fought, all faiths in man shaken.