“There is such a thing as robbing a story of its reality by trying to make it too true...”

“What a silly thing love is! It is not half as useful as logic, for it does not prove anything and it is always telling one things that are not going to happen, and making one believe things that are not true.”

“It is simply expression, as Henry says, that gives reality to things.”

“Ideals are dangerous things. Realities are better. They wound, but they're better.”

“If one doesn't talk about a thing, it has never happened. It is simply expression that gives reality to things.”

“He watched it with that strange interest in trivial things that we try to develop when things of high import make us afraid, or when we are stirred by some new emotion for which we cannot find expression...”

“Always! That is a dreadful word. It makes me shudder when I hear it. Women are so fond of using it. They spoil every romance by trying to make it last forever. It is a meaningless word, too. The only difference between a caprice and a life-long passion is that the caprice lasts a little longer.”