The worst thing in the world is to try to sleep and not to.

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.

If you try to create a type, you may end with nothing. If you do a good job of creating an individual, you may succeed at creating a type.

Suddenly she realized that what she was regretting was not the lost past but the lost future, not what had not been but what would never be.

Speech is an arrangement of notes that will never be played again.

You are mine-you know you're mine!" he cried wildly...the moonlight twisted in through the vines and listened...the fireflies hung upon their whispers as if to win his glance from the glory of their eyes.

The Montana sunset lay between the mountains like a giant bruise from which darkened arteries spread across a poisoned sky.