Are you pro- or anti-macassar?

What we are assigned to bear is in a sense a measure of our stature.

I am not impressed by the Ivy League establishments. Of course they graduate the best -- it's all they'll take, leaving to others the problem of educating the country. They will give you an education the way the banks will give you money -- provided you can prove to their satisfaction that you don't need it.

We turned on one another deep, drowned gazes, and exchanged a kiss that reduced my bones to rubber and my brain to gruel.

Before the mind snaps, or the heart breaks, it gather itself like a clock about to strike. It might even be said one pulls himself together to disintegrate.

All couples must bear the strain of getting acquainted, having been, up to then, merely intimate.

I wondered whether any woman could be happy with a man who says 'folderol'.