There is this thing called life. We live it, not as we intend or wish, but as we are driven on by forces outside and inside ourselves.

I know about her, although she has never crossed my path," he said softly. "I know about her struggles and her defeats. It is because of her defeats that she is to me the lovely one. Out of her defeats she has been born a new quality in woman. I have a name for it. I call it Tandy. I made up the name when I was a true dreamer and before my body became vile. It is the quality of being strong to be loved. It is something men need from women and that they do not get.

It might be that women who have beennurses should not marry physicians. They have too much respect for physicians, are taughtto have too much respect

I had a world, and it slipped away from me. The War blew up more than the bodies of men....It blew ideas away.

It is all right you're saying you do not need other people, but there are a lot of people who need you.

It was a cold day but the sun was out and the trees were like great bonfires against gray distant fields and hills.

I think you know that when an American stays away from New York too long something happens to him. Perhaps he becomes a little provincial, a little dead and afraid.