"Why, he wondered, should he remember her suddenly, on such a day, watching the rain falling on the apple trees?"

"A familiar name on its own, however, does not carry its bearer far unless the talent is there, and the will to work."

"What degradation lay in being young."

"No, Mary had no illusions about romance. Falling in love was a pretty name for it, that was all."

"Watch that boy. He's going to startle somebody someday."

"An empty house can be as lonely as a full hotel" he said at length."The trouble is that it is less impersonal."

"I wonder ... when it was that the world first went amiss, and men forgot how to live and to love and to be happy."

"I could not ask for forgiveness for something I had not done. As scapegoat, I could only bear the fault."

"I thought of all those heroines of fiction who looked pretty when they cried, and what a contrast I must make with a blotched and swollen face, and red rims to my eyes."

"He stole horses' you'll say to yourself, 'and he didn't care for women; and but for my pride I'd have been with him now."

"How lacking in intuition men could be in persuading themselves that mending some stranger's socks, and attending to his comfort, could content a woman..."

"Living as we do in an age of noise and bluster, success is now measured accordingly. We must all be seen, and heard, and on the air."

"Life was a series of greetings and farewells, one was always saying good-bye to something, to someone."

"You understand now... how simple life becomes when things like mirrors are forgotten."

"When she smiled it was as though she embraced the world."

"... and through it all and afterwards they would be together, making their own world where nothing mattered but the things they could give to one another, the loveliness, the silence, and the peace."

"Christmas is a good excuse to eat everything."

"The choices we make, dictate the lives we lead."

"I'll tell you one thing, it's a cruel, cruel world."

"It's fun to be on the edge. I think you do your best work when you take chances, when you're not safe, when you're not in the middle of the road, at least for me, anyway."

"Everybody needs money. That's why they call it money."

"I don’t look ahead. I’m right here with you. It’s a good way to be."

"A bad salesman will automatically drop his price. Bad salesmen make me sick."

"America's racist, so what do you expect."