One writes of scars healed, a loose parallel to the pathology of the skin, but there is no such thing in the life of an individual.

You've got to sell your heart, your strongest reactions, not the little minor things that only touch you lightly, the little experiences that you might tell at dinner. This is especially true when you begin to write, when you have not yet developed the tricks of interesting people on paper, when you have none of the technique which it takes time to learn. When, in short, you have only your emotions to sell.

In a few days I'll have lived one score and three days in this vale of tears. On I plod-always bored, often drunk, doing no penance for my faults-rather do I become more tolerant of myself from day to day, hardening my crystal heart with blasphemous humor and shunning only toothpicks, pathos, and poverty as being the three unforgivable things in life.

Of the things they possessed in common, greatest of all was their almost uncanny pull at each others hearts.

There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy and the tired.

Men she knew'? - she had conceded vaguely to herself that all men who had ever been in love with her were her friends.

Then he kissed her. At his lips' touch she blossomed for him like a flower and the incarnation was complete.