All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened.

For a poet he threw a very accurate milk bottle.

I don't feel any way,' the girl said. 'I just know things.

She is kind and very beautiful. But she can be so cruel and it comes so suddenly.

That seemed to handle it. That was it. Send a girl off with one man. Introduce her to another to go off with him. Now go and bring her back. And sign the wire with love. That was it all right. I went in to lunch.

There was a time, not so long ago, when the stupid and uneducated aspired to be thought intelligent and cultured people doing their best to feign stupidity.

Tell him I think writing is lousy," Bill said. "Go on, tell him. Tell him I'm ashamed of being a writer.