Never confuse activity with action.

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

It is not necessarily poverty of spirit that makes a woman surround herself with life - it can be a superabundance of interest.

He talked a lot about the past and I gathered that he wanted to recover something, some idea of himself perhaps, that had gone into loving Daisy.

Never walk near the bed; to a ghost your ankle is your most vulnerable part-once in bed, you're safe; he may lie around under the bed all night, but you're safe as daylight. If you still have doubts pull the blanket over your head.

When a man is tired of life on his 21st birthday it indicates that he is rather tired of something in himself.

Here was a new generation, shouting the old cries, learning the old creeds, through a revery of long days and nights; destined finally to go out into that dirty gray turmoil to follow love and pride; 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.