mother says that two souls are sometimes created together and--and in love before they're born.

She was a dark, unenduring little flower - yet he thought he detected in her some quality of spiritual reticence, of strength drawn from her passive acceptance of all things. In this he was mistaken.

"What are you going to do?" "Can't say - run for president, write -" "Greenwich Village?" "Good heavens, no - I said write - not drink."

I am slow-thinking and full of interior rules that act as brakes on my desires.

good manners are an admission that everybody is so tender that they have to be handle with gloves.

She was beautiful - but especially she was without mercy.

The best of America drifts to Paris. The American in Paris is the best American.