People living alone get used to loneliness.

What'll we do with ourselves this afternoon,' cried Daisy, 'and the day after that, and the next thirty years?' 'Don't be morbid,' Jordan said. 'Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall.' 'But it's so hot,' insisted Daisy, on the verge of tears, 'And everything's so confused. Let's all go to town!

It was about then [1920] that I wrote a line which certain people will not let me forget: "She was a faded but still lovely woman of twenty-seven."

Learn young about hard work and manners - and you'll be through the whole dirty mess and nicely dead again before you know it.

I am one of the few honest people that I have ever known.

All that kept her from breaking was that it was not an image of strength that was leaving her; she would be just as strong without him.

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