They were smiling at each other as if this was the beginning of the world.

the intimate revelations of young men, or at least the terms in which they express them, are usually plagiaristic and marred by obvious suppressions.

She laughed with thrilling scorn. "Sophisticated-God, I'm sophisticated!

At the enchanted metropolitan twilight I felt a haunting loneliness sometimes, and felt it in others -- poor young clerks who loitered in front of windows waiting until it was time for a solitary restaurant dinner -- young clerks in the dusk, wasting the most poignant moments of night and life.

Prose talent depends on having something to say and an interesting, highly developed way of saying it.

Only remember west of the Mississippi it's a little more look, see, act. A little less rationalize, comment, talk.

Begin with an individual, and before you know it you find that you have created a type; begin with a type, and you find that you have created - nothing.