I began to realize that for two years my life had been a drawing on resources that I did not possess, that I had been mortgaging myself physically and spiritually up to the hilt.

He had possessed the arrogance of a tall member of a short race, with no obligation save to be tall.

I have asked a lot of my emotions-one hundred and twenty stories. The price was high, right up with Kipling, because there was one little drop of something, not blood, not a tear, not my seed, but me more intimately than these, in every story, it was the extra I had. Now it has gone and I am just like you now.

Baltimore is warm but pleasant... I belong here, where everything is civilized and gay and rotted and polite.

Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.

One girl can be pretty - but a dozen are only a chorus.

It's just because I love the past that I want this house to look back on its glamourous moment of youth and beauty, and I want its stairs to creak as if to the footsteps of women with hoop skirts and men in boots and spurs. But they've made it into a blondined, rouged-up old woman of sixty.