It's not because I've -what is the phrase? -'swept you off your feet' by my -er- ardor?

Men and women, they were beautiful and wild, all a little violent under their pleasant ways and only a little tamed.

Everybody's mainspring is different. And I want to say this - folks whose mainsprings are busted are better dead.

Fighting is like champagne. It goes to the heads of cowards as quickly as of heroes. Any fool can be brave on a battlefield when it's be brave or else be killed.

Sometimes Frank sighed, thinking he had caught a tropic bird, all flame and jewel color, when a wren would have served him just as well. In fact, much better.

The way to get a man interested and to hold his interest was to talk about himself, and then gradually lead the conversation around yourself—and keep it there.

Until you've lost your reputation, you never realize what a burden it was.