I avoided writers very carefully because they can perpetuate trouble as no one else can.

If you're in love it ought to make you happy. You ought to laugh.

Very well then, better a sane crook than a mad puritan.

Very few of the people who accentuate the futility of life remark the futility of themselves. Perhaps they think that in proclaiming the evil of living they somehow salvage their own worth from the ruin - but they don't, even you and I.

Well, you never knew exactly how much space you occupied in people's lives. Yet from this fog his affection emerged--the best contacts are when one knows the obstacles and still wants to preserve a relation.

I noticed that she wore her evening dress, all her dresses, like sports clothes-there was a jauntiness about her movements as if she had first learned to walk upon a golf course on clean, crisp, mornings.

She admired him; she was used to clutching her hands together in his wake and heaving audible sighs.