It appears that every man's insomnia is as different from his neighbours as are their daytime hopes and aspirations.

Life cracked like ice!

The exhilarating ripple of her voice was a wild tonic in the rain.

Travel, which had once charmed him, seemed, at length, unendurable, a business of color without substance, a phantom chase after his own dream's shadow.

You are the finest, loveliest, tenderest, and most beautiful person I have ever known—and even that is an understatement.

...for a moment people set down their glasses in county clubs and speak-easies and thought of their old best dreams.

Work like hell! I had 122 rejection slips before I sold a story.