Go on, she urged. Lie to me by the moonlight. Do a fabulous story.

I live in a house over there on the Island, and in that house there is a man waiting for me. When he drove up at the door I drove out of the dock because he says I’m his ideal.

Take off that darn fur coat!...Or maybe you'd like to have us open all the windows.

I hope I haven't given you the impression that I consider kissing intrinsically irrational.

Is your generation so soft that they talk of going to pieces if life doesn't always present itself in terms of beautiful, easy decisions?

The grass is full of ghosts tonight.' 'The whole campus is alive with them.' They paused by Little and watched the moon rise, to make silver of the slate roof of Dodd and blue the rustling trees. 'You know,' whispered Tom, 'what we feel now is the sense of all the gorgeous youth that has rioted through here in two hundred years.

I want you to lie to me just as sweetly as you know how for the rest of my life.

Man in his hunger for faith will feed his mind with the nearest and most convenient food.

I've found that I can always do the things that people do in books. Really they are the only things I can do.