Their lips brushed like young wild flowers in the wind.

Your life on earth will be, as always, the interval between two significant glances in a mundane mirror.

Murder your darlings.

The notion of sitting down and conjuring up, not only words in which to clothe thoughts but thoughts worthy of being clothed--the whole thing was absurdly beyond his desires.

At fifteen you had the radiance of early morning, at twenty you will begin to have the melancholy brilliance of the moon.

I'm inclined to reserve all judgement, a habit that has opened up many curious natures to me and made me the victim of not a few veteran bores. The abnormal mind is quick to detect and attach itself to this quality when it appears in a normal person, and so it came about that in college I was unjustly accused of being a politician, because I was privy to the secret griefs of wild, unknown men.

I'll drink your champagne. I'll drink every drop of it, I don't care if it kills me.