It should not be denied... that being footloose has always exhilarated us. It is associated in our minds with escape from history and oppression and law and irksome obligations, with absolute freedom, and the road has always led West.

it is an easy mistake to think that non-talkers are non-feelers.

This early piece of the morning is mine.

There it was, there it is, the place where during the best time of our lives friendship had its home and happiness its headquarters.

Do we respond only to people who seem to find us interesting?

I think, don't you, that a girl with any delicacy of feeling couldn't bring herself to marry a man indirectly responsible for her father's death. No matter how much she was in love with him.

You'll do what you think you want to do, or what you think you ought to do. If you're very lucky, luckier than anybody I know, the two will coincide.