I don’t mind if you don’t like my manners. They’re pretty bad. I grieve over them during the long winter evenings.

“As it is she will probably turn out to be one of these acid-faced virgins that …”

“To say goodbye is to die a little.”

“It was a blonde. A blonde to make a bishop kick a hole in a stained-glass windo…”

“A good story cannot be devised; it has to be distilled.”