The sign of intelligence is the ability to carry opposed thoughts at the same time.

The sun had gone down behind the tall apartments of the movie stars in the West Fifties, and the unclear voices of children, already gathered like crikets on the grass, rose through the hot twilight.

Every author ought to write every book as if he were going to be beheaded the day he finished it.

Of the things they possessed in common, greatest of all was their almost uncanny pull at each others hearts.

The Montana sunset lay between the mountains like a giant bruise from which darkened arteries spread across a poisoned sky.

I don't like girls in the daytime,' he said shortly, and then thinking this a bit abrupt, he added: 'But I like you.' He cleared his throat. 'I like you first and second and third.

A new generation dedicated more than the last to the fear of poverty and the worship of success; grown up to find all Gods dead, all wars fought, all faiths in man shaken...