It was too late - everything was too late. For years now he had dreamed the world away, basing his decisions upon emotions unstable as water.

Dishonesty in a woman is a thing you never blame deeply.

Isn't Hollywood a dump-in the human sense of the word. A hideous town, pointed up by the insulting gardens of its rich, full of the human spirit at a new low of debasement.

I see you're looking at my cuff buttons." I hadn't been looking at them, but I did now.

They had never been closer in their month of love, nor communicated more profoundly one with another, than when she brushed silent lips against his coat's shoulder or when he touched the end of her fingers, gently, as though she were asleep.

Her voice is full of money.

I hate dainty minds,' answered Marjorie. 'But a girl has to be dainty in person. If she looks like a million dollars she can talk about Russia, ping-pong, or the League of Nations and get away with it.