To write it, it took three months; to conceive it three minutes; to collect the data in it all my life.

Whenever you feel like criticizing any one... just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had.

we both fitted. If our corners were not rubbed off they were at least pulled in. But deep in us both was something that made us require more for happiness. I didn't know what I wanted

It's a great advantage not to drink among hard-drinking people. You can hold your tongue, and, moreover, you can time any little irregularity of your own so that everybody else is so blind that they don't see or care.

People disappeared, reappeared, made plans to go somewhere, and then lost each other, searched for each other, found each other a few feet away.

He was handsome then if never before, bound for one of those immortal moments which come so radiantly that their remembered light is enough to see by for years.

I want to tell you about your heart— you've probably been neglecting your heart—and you don’t know.