Love was a fever that came along a few years after chicken-pox and measles and scarlet fever.

Truth out of season was sourer than strawberries at Christmas time.

Supplementing the far, remote Glory-of-God expression in his face, the glory-of-doughnuts shone suddenly very warmly.

If Beauty is excuse enough for Being, it sure takes Plainness then to feel the real necessity for—Doing.

Oh any sentimental person can cry at night, but when you begin to cry in the morning - to lie awake and cry in the morning-.

Sorrow in the tongue will talk itself cured, if you give it a chance; but sorrow in the eyes has a wicked, wicked way now and then of leaking into the brain.

The Pretty Lady's brains were almost entirely in her fingers.

lips all crude scarlet, and eyes as absurdly big and round as a child's good-by kiss.

Marriage is not for me. I tell you that I am Blank Verse. I am talent, and I do not rhyme with Love. I am talent and I do not rhyme with man.

One was a Cartoon Artist with a heart like chiffon and a wit as accidentally malicious as the jab of a pin in a flirt's belt.

Provide for her Future—if you can!—That's my motto!—But a man's just a plain bum who don't provide for his own Past!

She's an old soldier's woman, and she has antennae for things that often escape the officer in the field.

When you say you’re a fan of the gore, what do you mean?”“The all supernatural bunch, love. The scarier the merrier.

Genius develops in quiet places character out in the full current of human life.

Women need space and silence. We too quickly give away our energy. There's something about holding that richness.

I just want to fit in and win games for my team.

For how can a man stand, unless he have something sure under his feet. Can a man tread the unstable water all his life, and call that standing? Better give in and drown at once.

Strong, proactive obedience is anything but weak or passive.

I don't know, one out of every two marriages ends up in divorce so there's a lot of great people out there who people aren't happy with.

There is the music that we make, and the music that makes us.

I support the constitutional right of American women to consult their own conscious, their own support of partner, their own minister, but then make their own decision about pregnancy.