I always think loyalty's such a tiresome virtue.

Surfing is like that. You are either vigorously cursing or else you are idiotically pleased with yourself.

Liking is more important than loving. It lasts. I want what is between us to last, Luke. I don't want us just to love each other and marry and get tired of each other and then want to marry some one else.

It's like all those quiet people, when they do lose their tempers they lose them with a vengeance.

You know, Emily was a selfish old woman in her way. She was very generous, but she always wanted a return. She never let people forget what she had done for them - and, that way she missed love.

There's no agony like [getting started]. You sit in a room, biting pencils, looking at a typewriter, walking about, or casting yourself down on a sofa, feeling you want to cry your head off.

In my end is my beginning - that's what people are always saying. But what does it mean?