I want leisure to read—an immense amount.

If I knew words enough, I could write the longest love letter in the world and never get tired

Let's borrow life preservers and jump over. I think we should do something spectacular. I feel that all our lives have been too restrained.

one of those men who reach such an acute limited excellence at twenty−one that everything afterward savors of anti−climax.

Well, I can't describe her exactly-except to say that she was beautiful. She was-tremendously alive.

And he could not tell why the struggle was worthwhile, why he had determined to use the utmost himself and his heritage from the personalities he had passed... He stretched out his arms to the crystalline, radiant sky. I know myself," he cried, "But that is all.

He had been full of the idea so long, dreamed it right through to the end, waited with his teeth set, so to speak, at an inconceivable pitch of intensity. Now, in the reaction, he was running down like an overwound clock.