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

I don’t want just words. If that’s all you have for me, you’d better go

the cracked plate has to be retained in the pantry, has to be kept in service as a household necessity. It can never be warmed on the stove nor shuffled with the other plates in the dishpan; it will not be brought out for company but it will do to hold crackers late at night or to go into the ice-box with the left overs.

It is not life that's complicated, it's the struggle to guide and control life.

He had angered Providence by resisting too many temptations. There was nothing left but heaven, where he would meet only those who, like him, had wasted earth.

...their eyes are full of kindness as each feels the full effect of novelty after a short separation. They are drawing a relaxation from each other's presence, a new serenity.

A woman should be able to kiss a man beautifully and romantically without any desire to be either his wife or his mistress.