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

Only remember west of the Mississippi it's a little more look, see, act. A little less rationalize, comment, talk.

I am still a little afraid of missing something if I forget that, as my father snobbishly suggested, and I snobbishly repeat, a sense of the fundamental decencies is parcelled out unequally at birth.

I've been drunk for about a week now, and I thought it might sober me up to sit in a library.

The invitation to Miss Myra St. Claire's bobbing party spent the morning in his coat pocket, where it had an intense physical affair with a dusty piece of peanut brittle.

Great art is the contempt of a great man for small art.

I guess I'm the Black Death,' he said slowly. 'I don't seem to bring people happiness any more.