Americans, while occasionally willing to be serfs, have always been obstinate about being peasantry.

The compensation of a very early success is a conviction that life is a romantic matter. In the best sense one stays young.

A love affair is like a short story--it has a beginning, a middle, and an end. The beginning was easy, the middle might drag, invaded by commonplace, but the end, instead of being decisive and well knit with that element of revelatory surprise as a well-written story should be, it usually dissipated in a succession of messy and humiliating anticlimaxes.

The exhilarating ripple of her voice was a wild tonic in the rain.

It is sadder to find the past again and find it inadequate to the present than it is to have it elude you and remain forever a harmonious conception of memory.

unloved women have no biographies-- they have histories

No one should live beyond 30.