His hand took hold of hers, and as she said something low in his ear he turned toward her with a rush of emotion. I think that voice held him most, with its fluctuating, feverish warmth, because it couldn’t be over-dreamed —that voice was a deathless song.

Americans, while occasionally willing to be serfs, have always been obstinate about being peasantry.

I don't want to repeat my innocence. I want the pleasure of losing it again.

It’s a great advantage not to drink among hard drinking people.

I noticed that she wore her evening dress, all her dresses, like sports clothes-there was a jauntiness about her movements as if she had first learned to walk upon a golf course on clean, crisp, mornings.

i was perhaps an egotist in youth, but i soon found it made me morbid to think too much about myself

For a while these reveries provided an outlet for his imagination; they were a satisfactory hint of the unreality of reality, a promise that the rock of the world was founded securely on a fairy's wing.