...I had grown up in a world that was dominated by immature age. Not by vigorous immaturity, but by immaturity that was old and tired and prudent, that loved ritual and rubric, and was utterly wanting in curiosity about the new and the strange. Its era has passed away, and the world it made has crumbled around us. Its finest creation, a code of manners, has been ridiculed and discarded.

Youth is always an enemy to the old.

marriage is mostly puttin' up with things, I reckon, when it ain't makin' believe.

audacity is of all qualities the most youthful.

It is human nature to overestimate the thing you've never had.

What depresses me is the inevitable way the second rate forges ahead and the deserving is left behind.

... the ordinary is simply the universal observed from the surface, that the direct approach to reality is not without, but within. Touch life anywhereand you will touch universality wherever you touch the earth.