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.

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

Draw your chair up close to the edge of the precipice and I’ll tell you a story.

There are all kinds of love in this world but never the same love twice.

I noticed that she wore her evening dress, all her dresses, like sports clothes-there was a jauntiness about her movements as if she had first learned to walk upon a golf course on clean, crisp, mornings.

Reserving judgements is a matter of infinite hope.

Nicole's world had fallen to pieces, but it was only a flimsy and scarcely created world; beneath it her emotions and instincts fought on.