It's a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.

Death doesn't affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn't concern the dead because they have ceased to exist.

And I have the sunset, and the Tuscan wine, and the white teeth of the women in Rome. I am a traveler in Romance.

A Unitarian very earnestly disbelieves what everyone else believes.

A good Havana is one of the best pleasures that I know.

The tragedy of love is not death or separation. How long do you think it would have been before one or other of them ceased to care? Oh, it is dreadfully bitter to look at a woman whom you have loved with all your heart and soul, so that you felt you could not bear to let her out of your sight, and realize that you would not mind if you never saw her again. The tragedy of love is indifference.

All the words I use in my stories can be found in the dictionary-it's just a matter of arranging them into the right sentences.