Courage is a sort of insistence on the value of life and the worth of transient things.

I'm a product of a versatile mind in a restless generation with every reason to throw my mind and pen in with the radicals.

Possibly it had occurred to him that the colossal significance of that light had now vanished forever.

If that was true he must have felt that he had lost the old warm world, paid a high price for living too long with a single dream. He must have looked up at an unfamiliar sky through frightening leaves and shivered as he found what a grotesque thing a rose is and how raw the sunlight was upon the scarcely created grass.

He desired her and, so far as her virginal emotions went, she contemplated a surrender with equanimity. Yet she knew she would forget him half an hour after she left him - like an actor kissed in a picture.

Oh God! One minute it's my world, and the next I'm the world's fool.

A young man can work at excessive speed with no ill effects, but youth is unfortunately not a permanent condition of life.

One night I did hear a material car there, and saw its lights stop at his front steps. But I didn't investigate. Probably it was some final guest who had been away at the ends of the earth and didn't know that the party was over.

Fashion is made to become unfashionable.

There are many things which swallow up men's thoughts while they live, which they will think little of when they are dying. Hundreds are wholly absorbed in political schemes and seem to care for nothing but the advancement of their own party. Myriads are buried in business and money matters and seem to neglect everything else but this world.

There is much to life than fame and fortune. If you are a part of the entertainment industry, please remember it is all temporary.

I love how 'melodrama' is a denigrated term - a lower-class citizen to other genres. And yet that's what life is, man.