The extraordinary thing is not that people in a lifetime turn out worse or better than we had prophesied; particularly in America that is to be expected. The extraordinary thing is how people keep their levels, fulfill their promises, seem actually buoyed up by an inevitable destiny.

I was thirty. Before me stretched the portentous, menacing road of a new decade.

Most affectations conceal something eventually, even though they don't in the beginning.

The two basic stories of all times are Cinderella and Jack the Giant Killer-the charm of women and the courage of men.

The unwelcome November rain had perversely stolen the day's last hour and pawned it with that ancient fence, the night.

Riches have never fascinated me, unless combined with the greatest charm or distinction.

The world is always curious, and people become valuable merely for their inaccessibility