Most of the basic material a writer works with is acquired before the age of fifteen.

Some memories are realities, and are better than anything that can ever happen to one again.

I wondered if the life that was right for one was ever right for two!

Loyal? As loyal as anyone who plays second fiddle ever is.

The summer moon hung full in the sky. For the time being it was the great fact of the world.

Old people, who have felt blows and toil and known the world's hard hand, need, even more than children do, a woman's tenderness.

Money is a protection, a cloak; it can buy one quiet, and some sort of dignity.