Young people want to look like peas in a pod, and there is no use trying to make them different.

Neither an assembly line nor a stock market nor an oil well did it, simply what came from one small skull and that one right hand.

All the humiliating, tragicomic, heartbreaking things happened to me in my girlhood, and nothing makes me happier than to realize I cannot possibly relive my youth.

I always felt that the boiled potato, not the tudor rose, should be the national emblem.

in love, gallantry is necessary. Even when the first wild desire is gone, especially then, there is an inherent need for good manners and consideration, for the putting forth of effort. Two courteous and civilized human beings out of the loneliness of their souls owe that to each other.

Love at a distance may be poignant; it is also idealized. Contact, more than separation, is the test of attachment.

Intellect alone is a dry and rattling thing.