youth is a marvelous garment

We are all the judges and the judged, victims of the casual malice and fantasy of others, and ready sources of fantasy and malice in our turn. And if we are sometimes accused of sins of which we are innocent, are there not also other sins of which we are guilty and of which the world knows nothing?

I see myself as Rhoda, not Mary Tyler Moore.

True love gallops, it flies, it is the swiftest of all modes of thought, swifter even than hate and fear.

Being in love is an exhausting business.

No love is entirely without worth, even when the frivolous calls to the frivolous and the base to the base.

Every book is the wreck of a perfect idea.