The difference is that these young people take it for granted that they're going to get whatever they want, and that we almost always took it for granted that we shouldn't. Only, I wonder—the thing one's so certain of in advance: can it ever make one's heart beat as wildly?

There's nothing grimmer than the tragedy that wears a comic mask.

She was not accustomed to taste the joys of solitude except in company.

Old age, calm, expanded, broad with the haughty breadth of the universe, old age flowing free with the delicious near-by freedom of death.

The only way not to think about money is to have a great deal of it.

Ah, the poverty, the miserable poverty, of any love that lies outside of marriage, of any love that is not a living together, a sharing of all!

There's no such thing as old age, there is only sorrow.