A man's social rank is determined by the amount of bread he eats in a sandwich.

She smiled, a moving childish smile that was like all the lost youth in the world.

Then I grew up, and the beauty of succulent illusions fell away from me.

Baltimore is warm but pleasant... I belong here, where everything is civilized and gay and rotted and polite.

I love this simply because it's cute, and I guess it's a sign of the times in many respect. It's pretty much saying you complete me, only in the sweetest way possible.

Sometimes I think that idlers seem to be a special class for whom nothing can be planned, plead as one will with them - their only contribution to the human family is to warm a seat at the common table.

Trouble has no necessary connection with discouragement. Discouragement has a germ of its own, as different from trouble as arthritis is different from a stiff joint.