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

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.

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

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!

The power of choosing good and evil is within the reach of all.

God created the world just like a knife and left it up to us to take it by the handle or the blade.

I've taken considerable gambles on shows, but they're very considered gambles.

This is one night I wish I smoked and drank.

Most of it was nuts, but I was determined to be a drummer as soon as I left school.

If it's against state law, it's generally considered a breach of Etiquette.

Thanks to the race-day adrenaline rush, any pace will feel easier than normal. So make a conscious effort to hold back in the early miles.

I should have mixed something stronger than Coke floats.

While aromatherapy is practiced by medical doctors in France, this has not been the case in England and the United States.