The strongest guard is placed at the gateway to nothing. Maybe because the condition of emptiness is too shameful to be divulged.

Then she added in a sort of childish delight: 'We'll be poor, won't we? Like people in books. And I'll be an orphan and utterly free. Free and poor! What fun!' She stopped and raised her lips to him in a delighted kiss. 'It's impossible to be both together,' said John grimly. 'People have found that out. And I should choose to be free as preferable of the two.

Angry, and half in love with her, and tremendously sorry, I turned away.

For the moment I can only cry out that I have lost my splendid mirage. Come back, come back, O glittering and white!

Cut out all these exclamation points. An exclamation point is like laughing at your own joke.

Advertising is a racket, like the movies and the brokerage business. You cannot be honest without admitting that its constructive contribution to humanity is exactly minus zero.

Some men have a necessity to be mean, as if they were exercising a faculty which they had to partially neglect since early childhood.