I want leisure to read—an immense amount.

A man's social rank is determined by the amount of bread he eats in a sandwich.

When she saw him face to face their eyes met and brushed like birds’ wings. After that everything was all right, everything was wonderful, she knew that he was beginning to fall in love with her.

He did not understand all he had heard, but from his clandestine glimpse into the privacy of these two, with all the world that his short experience could conceive of at their feet, he had gathered that life for everybody was a struggle, sometimes magnificent from a distance, but always difficult and surprisingly simple and a little sad.

I can’t tell you just how wonderful she is. I don’t want you to know. I don’t want any one to know.

In his blue gardens men and girls came and went like moths among the whisperings and the champagne and the stars.

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