Well, you never knew exactly how much space you occupied in people's lives. Yet from this fog his affection emerged--the best contacts are when one knows the obstacles and still wants to preserve a relation.

No matter how low you go, there's always an unexplored basement.

It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did.

It was dawn now on Long Island and we went about opening the rest of the windows downstairs, filling the house with gray-turning, gold-turning light. The Shadow of a tree fell abruptly across the dew and ghostly birds began to sing among the blue leaves. There was a slow, pleasant movement in the air, scarcely a wind, promising a cool, lovely day.

One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise.

An author ought to write for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmaster of ever afterwards.

For the moment I can only cry out that I have lost my splendid mirage. Come back, come back, O glittering and white!