Whether you are really right or not doesn't matter; it's the belief that counts.

Whether you are really right or not doesn't matter; it's the belief that counts.

Love affairs are for emotional sprinters; the pleasures of love are for the emotional marathoners.

I came at last to a recognition of myself as, in part, a Tom Sawyer who wanted everything done according to the rules of romantic fiction, and complicated simple solutions with his absurd adolescent, book-born nonsense.

The book forces itself into my mind when I am lugging furniture, or pulling weeds.

The women we really love are the women who complete us, who have the qualities we can borrow and so become something nearer to whole men. Just as we complete them, of course; it’s not a one-way thing. Leola and I, when romance was stripped away, were too much alike; our strengths and weaknesses were too nearly the same. Together we would have doubled our gains and our losses, but that isn’t what love is.

The drama may be called that part of theatrical art which lends itself most readily to intellectual discussion: what is left is theater.