I want you to take a red-hot bath as hot as you can bear it, and just relax your nerves. You can read in the tub if you wish.

There is a moment—Oh, just before the first kiss, a whispered word—something that makes it worth while.

If personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures, then there was something gorgeous about him, some heightened sensitivity to the promises of life, as if he were related to one of those intricate machines that registered earthquakes ten thousand miles away.

I learned a little of beauty - enough to know that it had nothing to do with truth - and I found, moreover, that there was no great literary tradition; there was only the tradition of the eventful death of every literary tradition.

Beauty means the scent of roses and then the death of roses

Women are necessarily capable of almost anything in their struggle for survival and can scarcely be convicted of such man-made crimes as “cruelty.

What was it up there in the song that seemed to be calling her back inside? What would happen now in the dim, incalculable hours?