New York had all the iridescence of the beginning of the world.

When I see a beautiful shell like that I can't help feeling a regret about what's inside it.

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

For the moment I can only cry out that I have lost my splendid mirage. Come back, come back, O glittering and white!

This is the beauty I want. Beauty has got to be astonishing, astounding-- it's got to burst in on you like a dream, like the exquisite eyes of a girl.

I began to realize that for two years my life had been a drawing on resources that I did not possess, that I had been mortgaging myself physically and spiritually up to the hilt.

As he took her hand she saw him look her over from head to foot, a gesture she recognized and that made her feel at home, but gave her always a faint feeling of superiority to whoever made it. If her person was property she could exercise whatever advantage was inherent in its ownership.