He did not understand all he had heard, but from his clandestine glimpse into the privacy of these two, with all the world that his short experience could conceive of at their feet, he had gathered that life for everybody was a struggle, sometimes magnificent from a distance, but always difficult and surprisingly simple and a little sad.

I talk with the authority of failure - Ernest with the authority of success. We could never sit across the same table again.

A stirring warmth flowed from her, as if her heart was trying to come out to you concealed in one of those breathless, thrilling words.

Let's borrow life preservers and jump over. I think we should do something spectacular. I feel that all our lives have been too restrained.

You can stroke people with words.

A man's social rank is determined by the amount of bread he eats in a sandwich.

I may turn out an intellectual, but I'll never write anything but mediocre poetry.