Your first most typical figure in any new place turns out to be a bluff or a local nuisance.

The ability to hold two competing thoughts in one's mind and still be able to function is the mark of a superior mind

At fifteen you had the radiance of early morning, at twenty you will begin to have the melancholy brilliance of the moon.

At the enchanted metropolitan twilight I felt a haunting loneliness sometimes, and felt it in others -- poor young clerks who loitered in front of windows waiting until it was time for a solitary restaurant dinner -- young clerks in the dusk, wasting the most poignant moments of night and life.

Optimism is the content of small men in high places.

An unread book is just a block of paper.

I love this simply because it's cute, and I guess it's a sign of the times in many respect. It's pretty much saying you complete me, only in the sweetest way possible.