Give the people a new word and they think they have a new fact.

Art, it seems to me, should simplify.

Pittsburgh was even more vital, more creative, more hungry for culture than New York. Pittsburgh was the birthplace of my writing.

Men are all right for friends, but as soon as you marry them they turn into cranky old fathers, even the wild ones.

Winter lies too long in country towns; hangs on until it is stale and shabby, old and sullen.

I've seen it before. There are women who spread ruin through no fault of theirs, just by being too beautiful, too ful of life and love. They can't help it. Poeple come to them as people go to a warm fire in winter.

Alexandra sighed. "I have a feeling that if you go away, you will not come back. Something will happen to one of us, or to both. People have to snatch at happiness when they can, in this world. It is always easier to lose than to find. What I have is yours if you care enough about me to take it.