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

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.

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

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!

Risk the risks.

They are but beggars that can count their worth

Cynicism is what passes for insight among the mediocre.

Seeing the world differently is one of the toughest incompatibilities to reconcile in a relationship.

To do any less than to make Him known is to fail to really love our neighbors.

The body,-that is dust; the soul,-it is a bud of eternity.

People usually believe anything that they are told early and often.

Even when the attention focused on me is positive, I am uncomfortable being looked at by a lot of people - it's just not my natural state of being.

When you understand a species' art, you understand that species.

Sports teach you how to be quick. Injuries teach you how to slow down.