Men are all right for friends, but as soon as you marry them they turn into cranky old fathers, even the wild ones. They begin to tell you what's sensible and what's foolish, and want you to stick at home all the time. I prefer to be foolish when I feel like it, and be accountable to nobody.

Cleric said he thought Virgil, when he was dying at Brindisi, must have remembered that passage. After he had faced the bitter fact that he was to leave the 'A…

She remembered home as a place where there were always too many children, a cross man and work piling up around a sick woman.

'Jim,' she said earnestly, 'if I was put down there in the middle of the night, I could find my way all over that little town; and along the river to the next …

The most important thing about marriage is that the man must not let the woman feel downtrodden simply because she is a woman and he is a man.

I'm going to be with Gloria now.

I like to ride in trains too much. You never get to sit next to the window anymore when you're married.