The only rich women who ever interested me, the ones who were ever my friends, were adventuresses---people who were total self-creations.
They shared a doom against which virtue was no defense
It snowed all week. Wheels and footsteps moved soundlessly on the street, as if the business of living continued secretly behind a pale but impenetrable curtain. In the falling quiet there was no sky...
You got to want it to be good, and I don't want it.
Aprils have never meant much to me, autumns seem that season of beginning, spring.
Love, having no geography, knows no boundaries.
A very fine artist can take something quite ordinary and, through sheer artistry and willpower, turn it into a work of art.
Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
I’ve tried that. I’ve tried aspirin, too. Rusty thinks I should smoke marijuana, and I did for a while, but it only makes me giggle. What I’ve found does the most good is just to get into a taxi and g...
I thought of the future, and spoke of the past.
Never love a wild thing, Mr. Bell,' Holly advised him. 'That was Doc's mistake. He was always lugging home wild things. A hawk with a hurt wing. One time it was a full-grown bobcat with a broken leg....
He’d always been willing to confess his faults, for, by admitting them, it was as if he made them no longer exist.
That's not writing that's typing.
I told you: you can make yourself love anybody.
I'm praying for you, Mary. I want you to live forever.
I prefer to underwrite. Simple, clear as a country creek.
Home is where you feel at home. I'm still looking.
Think of nothing things, think of wind.
That's not bad. I can't get excited by a man until he's forty-two.
Here is a hall without exit, a tunnel without end.