The mind of a little child is fascinating, for it looks on old things with new eyes-but at about twelve this changes. The adolescent offers nothing, can do nothing, say nothing that the adult cannot do better.

Very few of the people who accentuate the futility of life remark the futility of themselves. Perhaps they think that in proclaiming the evil of living they somehow salvage their own worth from the ruin - but they don't, even you and I.

he could transform the barest incident into a thing of curve and contour.

New York had all the iridescence of the beginning of the world. The returning troops marched up Fifth Avenue and girls were instinctively drawn East and North toward them - this was the greatest nation and there was gala in the air.

Life is much more successfully looked at from a single window.

I'm a romantic; a sentimental person thinks things will last, a romantic person hopes against hope that they won't.

Scratch a Yale man with both hands and you'll be lucky to find a coast-guard. Usually you find nothing at all.