Even when everything seems rotten you can't trust that judgment. It's the sum of all your judgments that counts.

Kiss me now, love me now.

Americans, while occasionally willing to be serfs, have always been obstinate about being peasantry.

What do you think of that? It’s stopped raining." I’m glad Jay." Her throat, full of aching, grieving beauty, told only of her unexpected joy.

Understand now, I'm purely a fiction writer and do not profess to be an earnest student of political science, but I believe strongly that such a law as one prohibiting liquor is foolish, and all the writers, keenly interested in human welfare whom I know, laugh at the prohibition law.

Nancy had a mouth like a remembered kiss.

one of those men who reach such an acute limited excellence at twenty−one that everything afterward savors of anti−climax.