Youth is the season of tragedy and despair. Youth is the time when one's whole life is entangled in a web of identity, in a perpetual maze of seeking and of finding, of passion and of disillusion, of vague longings and of nameless griefs, of pity that is a blade in the heart, and of 'all the little emptiness of love.

It is difficult to deal successfully, he decided, with a woman whose feelings cannot be hurt.

...America has enjoyed the doubtful blessing of a single-track mind. We are able to accommodate, at a time, only one national hero; and we demand that that hero shall be uniform and invincible. As a literate people we are preoccupied, neither with the race nor the individual, but with the type. Yesterday, we romanticized the "tough guy;" today, we are romanticizing the underprivileged, tough or tender; tomorrow, we shall begin to romanticize the pure primitive.

Cynicism is a sure sign of youth.

I never saw the man yet that came out of politics as clean as he went into 'em.

I have little faith in the theory that organized killing is the best prelude to peace.

No idea is so antiquated that it was not once modern. No idea is so modern that it will not someday be antiquated.