You really ought to read more books - you know, those things that look like blocks but come apart on one side.

She laughed with thrilling scorn. "Sophisticated-God, I'm sophisticated!

Trouble has no necessary connection with discouragement. Discouragement has a germ of its own, as different from trouble as arthritis is different from a stiff joint.

Find the key emotion; this may be all you need know to find your short story.

I was in love with a whirlwind, so when the girl threw me over, I went home and finished my novel.

It was strange to have no self-to be like a little boy left alone in a big house, who knew that now he could do anything he wanted to do, but found that there was nothing that he wanted to do.

i was perhaps an egotist in youth, but i soon found it made me morbid to think too much about myself