Now the writer, I think, has the chance to live more than other people in the presence of ... reality. It is his business to find it and collect it and communicate it to the rest of us.

King old ladies assure us that cats are often the best judges of character. A cat will always to to a good man, they say.

The root of things, what they were all afraid of saying, was that happiness is dirt cheap. You can have it for nothing. Beauty.

Anything may happen when womanhood has ceased to be a protected occupation.

The telephone, which interrupts the most serious conversations and cuts short the most weighty observations, has a romance of its own.

It seemed to her such nonsense-inventing differences, when people, heaven knows, were different enough without that.

For this is the truth about our soul, he thought, who fish-like inhabits deep seas and plies among obscurities threading her way between the boles of giant weeds, over sun-flickered spaces and on and on into gloom, cold, deep, inscrutable; suddenly she shoots to the surface and sports on the wind-wrinkled waves; that is, has a positive need to brush, scrape, kindle herself, gossiping.