Draw your chair up close to the edge of the precipice and I’ll tell you a story.

The extraordinary thing is not that people in a lifetime turn out worse or better than we had prophesied; particularly in America that is to be expected. The extraordinary thing is how people keep their levels, fulfill their promises, seem actually buoyed up by an inevitable destiny.

He looked at her the way all women want to be looked at by a man.

Men get to be a mixture of the charming mannerisms of the women they have known.

It is sadder to find the past again and find it inadequate to the present than it is to have it elude you and remain forever a harmonious conception of memory.

Nancy had a mouth like a remembered kiss.

If you try to create a type, you may end with nothing. If you do a good job of creating an individual, you may succeed at creating a type.