He knew that when he kissed this girl, and forever wed his unutterable visions to her perishable breath, his mind would never romp again like the mind of God.

Sometimes I don't know whether I'm real or whether I'm a character in one of my novels.

Have a drink Tom and then you won't feel so foolish to yourself.

I'm one of those people who go through the world giving other people thrills, but getting few myself except those I read into men on such nights as these. I have the social courage to go on the stage, but not the energy; I haven't the patience to write books; and I never met a man I'd marry. However, I'm only eighteen.

I love New York on summer afternoons when everyone's away. There's something very sensuous about it - overripe, as if all sorts of funny fruits were going to fall into your hands.

No one person in the world is necessary to you or to me.

Almost everybody can be imagined as either a cat or a dog.