Amory thought how it was only the past that seemed strange and unbelievable.

You don’t know what a trial it is to be —like me. I've got to keep my face like steel in the street to keep men from winking at me.

my imagination persisted in sticking horrors into the dark- so I stuck my imagination into the dark instead, and let it look out at me.

I don't want to repeat my innocence. I want the pleasure of losing it again.

Was it the infinite sadness of her eyes that drew him or the mirror of himself that he found in the gorgeous clarity of her mind?

It was always the becoming he dreamed of, never the being.

The unwelcome November rain had perversely stolen the day's last hour and pawned it with that ancient fence, the night.

You know I'm old in some ways-in others-well, I'm just a little girl. I like sunshine and pretty things and cheerfulness-and I dread responsibility.

Beauty and love pass, I know... Oh, there's sadness, too. I suppose all great happiness is a little sad. Beauty means the scent of roses and then the death of roses-

I'm not sentimental--I'm as romantic as you are. The idea, you know, is that the sentimental person thinks things will last--the romanticperson has a desperate confidence that they won't.

What are you going to do? "Can't say - run for president, write -" "Greenwich Village?" "Good heavens, no - I said write - not drink.

Lies and partial truths complicate life.

You want to hear that!??!?- I am going to give you... what you want....

The future you shall know when it has come; before then, forget it.

Those who don't manage their money will always work for those who do

Tourism is the march of stupidity.

I love a lot of very sentimental music, but I shouldn't necessarily be the person who makes it.

It's not whether you win or lose, it's how many people remember you when you die.

There is something haunting in the light of the moon; it has all the dispassionateness of a disembodied soul, and something of its inconceivable mystery.

I'd like to be able to experience things. That's the best thing for my work - to be somebody who does get to travel and observe people.

Everything about morality and obligations I owe to football.