Lately Mirabelle had reflected wistfully if people even noticed her – a smartly dressed woman who came and went along the Promenade, always alone.

In wartime people took action because of what they believed in. In peacetime people were driven by their private concerns.

Wellsted will remember this moment for the rest of his life. It is the first time he desires something for himself that is not dedicated to his own advancement. It is the moment he falls in love.

He’s more a shape in a drape than a hep cat

She was herself in their company but a very specific version of herself.

It took a certain kind of person to come from luxury and seek out danger.

Sometimes a person’s first assumption was very telling. It revealed how they perceived the situation.

People see what they expect to see.

The law don’t like jazz clubs. No one wants anything to do with that kind of trouble.

Cases fired by emotion rather than money were dangerous.

The smog curled between the streetlamps and the spokes of the wrought iron framework. It seemed through your body and into your bones.

There's a sunrise and a sunset every single day, and they're absolutely free. Don't miss so many of them.

But let no person say what they would or would not do, since we are not judges for ourselves until circumstances call us to act.

They didn't have a problem with me being wild and crazy when it came time to fill the arenas.

If a vacuum cleaner salesman rings your front door, he will be selling HIMSELF first. The vacuum cleaner is secondary.

Remorse presupposes enough self-forgetfulness to feel the pain ofothers.

Not only the words (vocabula) which the Holy Spirit and Scripture use are divine, but also the phrasing

My joy in friends, those sacred people, is my consolation.

The end of all wisdom is love, love, love.

I don't want to speak for all people who don't have children, but maybe there's a discomfort with kids and the amount of attention they demand, by just being the age that they are.

I try to treat people the way I would like to be treated, but I can't worry about what everyone's going to think.