I'm inclined to reserve all judgement, a habit that has opened up many curious natures to me and made me the victim of not a few veteran bores. The abnormal mind is quick to detect and attach itself to this quality when it appears in a normal person, and so it came about that in college I was unjustly accused of being a politician, because I was privy to the secret griefs of wild, unknown men.

We all must try to be good.

In a real dark night of the soul, it is always three o'clock in the morning, day after day.

This unlikely story begins on a sea that was a blue dream, as colorful as blue-silk stockings, and beneath a sky as blue as the irises of children's eyes.

When a girl feels that she’s perfectly groomed and dressed she can forget that part of her. That’s charm

The world only exists in your eyes. You can make it as big or as small as you want

You're a slave, a bound helpless slave to one thing in the world, your imagination.