What do you think of that? It’s stopped raining." I’m glad Jay." Her throat, full of aching, grieving beauty, told only of her unexpected joy.

The truth was that for some months he had been going through that partitioning of the things of youth wherein it is decided whether or not to die for what one no longer believes.

The things that'll make you fail I'll love always.

It's all life is. Just going 'round kissing people.

sometimes i wish i'd been an englishman; american life is so damned dumb and stupid and healthy

These lights, this brightness, these clusters of human hope, of wild desire—I shall take these lights in my fingers. I shall make them bright, and whether they shine or not, it is in these fingers that they shall succeed or fail.

But I always felt that I'd rather be provincial hot-tamale than soup without seasoning.