The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.

Character is plot, plot is character.

She looked at me and laughed pointlessly. Then she flounced over to the dog, kissed it with ecstasy, and swept into the kitchen, implying that a dozen chefs awaited her orders there.

Nancy had a mouth like a remembered kiss.

I'll drink your champagne. I'll drink every drop of it, I don't care if it kills me.

But I suppose you must touch life in order to spring from it.

He had possessed the arrogance of a tall member of a short race, with no obligation save to be tall.