I learned a little of beauty - enough to know that it had nothing to do with truth.

The faces of most American women over thirty are relief maps of petulant and bewildered unhappiness.

Fairies: Nature's attempt to get rid of soft boys by sterilizing them.

Strange children should smile at each other and say, "Let's play.

I don't want to repeat my innocence. I want the pleasure of losing it again.

The only way to increase it is to cultivate your own garden. And the only thing that will help you is poetry, which is the most concentrated form of style.... I don't care how clever the other professor is, one can't raise a discussion of modern prose to anything above tea-table level.

She had an air of seeming to wait, as if for a man to get through with something more important than herself, a battle or an operation, during which he must not be hurried or interfered with. When the man had finished she would be waiting, without fret or impatience, somewhere on a highstool, turning the pages of a newspaper.