Let's borrow life preservers and jump over. I think we should do something spectacular. I feel that all our lives have been too restrained.

No such thing as a man willing to be honest - that would be like a blind man willing to see.

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

Eighteen might look at thirty-four through a rising mist of adolescence, but twenty-two would see thirty-eight with discerning clarity.

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

You can stroke people with words.

Her body calculated to a millimeter to suggest a bud yet guarantee a flower.