A woman should be able to kiss a man beautifully and romantically without any desire to be either his wife or his mistress.

The loneliest moment in someone’s life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart, and all they can do is stare blankly.

There was a kindliness about intoxication - there was that indescribable gloss and glamour it gave, like the memories of ephemeral and faded evenings.

Prose talent depends on having something to say and an interesting, highly developed way of saying it.

An unread book is just a block of paper.

Everywhere we go and move on and change, something's lost--something's left behind. You can't ever quite repeat anything, and I've been so yours, here--

Most affectations conceal something eventually, even though they don't in the beginning.