She wanted to exist only as a conscious flower, prolonging and preserving herself

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

Fairies: Nature's attempt to get rid of soft boys by sterilizing them.

I found something! Courage--just that; courage as a rule of life and something to cling to always.

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

It was always the becoming he dreamed of, never the being.

I talk with the authority of failure - Ernest with the authority of success. We could never sit across the same table again.