I might have enjoyed the company of a woman or two... Or three but that had never stopped me from loving you.

People living alone get used to loneliness.

I like France, where everybody thinks he's Napoleon--down here everybody thinks he's Christ.

He snatched the book from me and replaced it hastily on its shelf, muttering that if one brick was removed the whole library was liable to collapse.

Young people do not perceive at once that the giver of wounds is the enemy and the quoted tattle merely the arrow.

She smiled at him, making sure that the smile gathered up everything inside her and directed it toward him, making him a profound promise of herself for so little, for the beat of a response, the assurance of a complimentary vibration in him.

You said a bad driver was only safe until she met another bad driver? Well, I met another bad driver, didn't I? I mean it was careless of me to makes such a wrong guess. I thought you were rather an honest, straightforward person I thought it was your secret pride." "I'm thirty," I said. "I'm five years too old to lie to myself and call it honor." She didn't answer. Angry, and half in love with her, and tremendously sorry, I turned away.